Hi everyone
I'm trying to back up an archive of 8mm camcorder tapes on a Sony TRV-480 camcorder.
It's a PAL camcorder and it's detecting that the tapes are NTSC and seems to be changing them accordingly without a hitch - they play perfectly on the screen, both picture and sound.
However as I'm trying to capture the footage via firewire into the PC I am getting an error with Premiere. I click the record button to capture, the camcorder starts and stops almost immediately with a "lost connection to device" error message.
I tried using a different camcorder (same make/model) on a different PC with the same Premiere software and it did the same thing so I have ruled out mechanical error.
I downloaded WinDV to test it out and putting in a standard PAL 8mm tape it worked perfectly but when I put one of these NTSC tapes in it recorded just blank until the very second when I stopped it, the sound came on and the picture showed for a second. After I stopped the WinDV capture it recorded just a second or two more which showed the picture was scrambled and not watchable.
I'm guessing it must be something to do with the fact that it's trying to convert NTSC but I can't understand why it would display perfectly on the camcorder but wouldn't capture to PC successfully.
I should note then when I tried to use Premiere I did set the NTSC setting.
I'm totally stumped, any thoughts or advice would be massively appreciated!
Thank you very much. :)
I'm trying to back up an archive of 8mm camcorder tapes on a Sony TRV-480 camcorder.
It's a PAL camcorder and it's detecting that the tapes are NTSC and seems to be changing them accordingly without a hitch - they play perfectly on the screen, both picture and sound.
However as I'm trying to capture the footage via firewire into the PC I am getting an error with Premiere. I click the record button to capture, the camcorder starts and stops almost immediately with a "lost connection to device" error message.
I tried using a different camcorder (same make/model) on a different PC with the same Premiere software and it did the same thing so I have ruled out mechanical error.
I downloaded WinDV to test it out and putting in a standard PAL 8mm tape it worked perfectly but when I put one of these NTSC tapes in it recorded just blank until the very second when I stopped it, the sound came on and the picture showed for a second. After I stopped the WinDV capture it recorded just a second or two more which showed the picture was scrambled and not watchable.
I'm guessing it must be something to do with the fact that it's trying to convert NTSC but I can't understand why it would display perfectly on the camcorder but wouldn't capture to PC successfully.
I should note then when I tried to use Premiere I did set the NTSC setting.
I'm totally stumped, any thoughts or advice would be massively appreciated!
Thank you very much. :)