Messages posted by dave

Thanks for that Barry and it's what I basically suspected. I must say this forum is like a breath of fresh air after my "interesting" experience with Customer Support.

Hi all, I'm new here and all the best for the Newyear by the way. I've been digitising some VCR tapes lately by feeding the analogue signal into my Sony camcorder which converts the signal to digital and then sends it to my PC where I do a screen capture. The rub is I have to use Windows Movie Maker to do the screen capture as I can't find a setting in PowerDirector 5 to do the capturing. My PowerDirector 5 works fine for capturing directly from the camcorder but not via the camcorder as in my VCR conversion setup (I get a fault message about no tape in the camcorder or the tape is writeprotected). I did ask Customer Support if there was a solution to this but, sadly, they were totally clueless and kept insisting my VCR tapes are faulty! Does anyone have a way to use PowerDirector 5 for capturing this way please as it would be good to use the one program for all my video requirements. I'm finding PowerDirector 5 an excellent editor by the way.
Cheers
Dave of NZ