Analogue capture difficult

DonC

Newbie Joined: Jan 25, 2009 20:07 Messages: 14 Offline

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Jan 25, 2009 20:12

Started using PD6 that came with my new HP to capture and burn video from old 8mm tape. I've invested many hours learning how to use it and developing a work flow to be used for more than 40 tapes, but the software has been crashing over and over on Vista, and when I finally get some completed DVDs, the audio is out of sync with the video.

In the forums it seems that many are having problems with the software crashing and I've seen it in reviews that are several years old. How is it this isn't fixed yet?

Any ideas on the audio sync problem?

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DonC

Newbie Joined: Jan 25, 2009 20:07 Messages: 14 Offline

Jan 25, 2009 20:29

Just to add a bit more info, I'm capturing analog 8mm video via a Sony Digital8 camcorder that converts the analog to digital and sends it to the PC via firewire. I've confirmed that the original captered AVI is perfectly in sync, so it's PD6 that is messing it up during the conversion to MPEG2.

babindia

Senior Contributor Location: India Joined: Aug 16, 2007 06:11 Messages: 884 Offline

Jan 25, 2009 23:13

What version of PD6 you have ?
There are 2 updates that you need to download and apply
Here is the link :http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/patches_4_en_US.html PC specs :
OS Windows 10.0 Pro
MB - AS rock Z77 extreme 11
Intel 3770K @ 4.0 Ghz OC
Gskill 32 GB RAM 1800 Mhz
6 TB HDD, SSD bootable
nVidia ASUS GTX 660 Ti
BenQ 22" LCD monitor 1920x1080

DonC

Newbie Joined: Jan 25, 2009 20:07 Messages: 14 Offline

Jan 26, 2009 00:11

I have 6.5.2420.

I did look for patches and found the page you sent a link to, but the older patch says "build 2319" which sounds older than what I have, and the newer patch says "for build 2319" only, so I didn't think either were right for me.

babindia

Senior Contributor Location: India Joined: Aug 16, 2007 06:11 Messages: 884 Offline

Jan 26, 2009 00:21

Why dont you import and edit as AVI and finish as MPEG-2 ? PC specs :
OS Windows 10.0 Pro
MB - AS rock Z77 extreme 11
Intel 3770K @ 4.0 Ghz OC
Gskill 32 GB RAM 1800 Mhz
6 TB HDD, SSD bootable
nVidia ASUS GTX 660 Ti
BenQ 22" LCD monitor 1920x1080

RobertJ/OZ

Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne Australia Joined: Aug 14, 2006 02:26 Messages: 1209 Offline

Jan 26, 2009 01:41

Hi Don,

It's hard to give a definitive answer to your problem because you have an OEM version of PowerDirector. Patch 2319 can only be applied to a full version PD6.

Whilst I have PD7 on my laptop, I still have a full version of PD6 on the desktop with XP. What I do is to connect my old 8mm Analog camcorder to my mini DV camcorder, record, then capture from the mini DV camcorder, have not had any noticeable sync issues.

Robert Intel i7 930, 16GB ram, Radeon HD 5770 1Gb,Ver. 14.12 Win7 64 bit
Intel i7 7700 HQ, 16 GB ram Nvidia GTX 1050Ti 4GB dual drives 1 TB SSD + 1 TB HDD Win 10

PDtoots

DonC

Newbie Joined: Jan 25, 2009 20:07 Messages: 14 Offline

Jan 26, 2009 08:22

Searching for "audio sync" I see that many are having this issue, even with 7. Time to checkout Vegas Movie Maker I guess....

DonC

Newbie Joined: Jan 25, 2009 20:07 Messages: 14 Offline

Jan 26, 2009 18:11

"Why dont you import and edit as AVI and finish as MPEG-2 ? "

uh, I am

roger608

Newbie Location: Florida, USA Joined: Apr 21, 2009 16:15 Messages: 19 Offline

Aug 21, 2009 10:03

Using a Sony TRV510 (digital eight) for playback I can capture HI8 material via firewire using PD7 full version on HP Pavillion notebook with Vista. However when I play normal 8 tapes PD7 halts capture about every 15 seconds. On the other hand, Windows Movie Maker captures the 8mm tapes as AVI files with no problems. Seems like a fixable problem for Cyberlink!

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