so can anyone help me out on this topic or not?

Nobody has answered because you do not give any information about your system, what camera are even the steps you took.

I have had no problems in Powerdirector Capture. So I have no idea what you are doing. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Ok Carl,
Sony DCR-HC52 MiniDV camcorder. Athlon 4000 processor, 1.63 GB ram...onboard graphics and sound card.
Trying to batch capture my video from New York....First off, I don't like how Cyberlink won't take control of the camera and automatically rewind it like Microsoft's simple movie editor will do. I would think a more powerful software program would do this as well. I then have it do it's quick scan where it will recognize all the scenes...

1.First puzzling thing I notice is that it won't capture my very first clip....it's like it won't let the tape start at the absolute beginning. It seems to want to leave this 10-20 second gap before it will start capturing the first scene, which if it does this then it is missing one of my clips I want to capture.

..I chose to leave all the clips checked as I want to capture them all after it does its quick scan.

1. Then, unless I unhook the camcorder from the computer, I can't even rewind the tape without it stopping at every scene....which takes forever when you have 60+ different scenes!

2. I then notice that once I go to start the actual capture process....nothing will happen....the tape on the camcorder won't start playing....the software just does nothing as well.

OK, I assume that you have a 1394 (firewire) connection from the Sony DCR-HC52 MiniDV camcorder to your computer.

That is a area that I have no experience with.

Is it possible for you to start the recording in Powerdirector capture, then manually press the play button on the camera and capure the entire 60+ scenes.

You may have to turn of the scene detection in Powerdirector. Directors chair, Edit, preferences (Alt+C), Capture tab under auto scene detection. tick do not detect.

Have you checked the DV parmeters (Button) on Capture tab of preferences?

I can see where some to the parmeters could cause you to lose the first few seconds of the capture. The default setting is wait 2 seconds before starting to capture. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Hi Bob,

The following Tutorial may be of help to you, it's for PD7, but it is basically the same for PD8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9lv3TR9hYs

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

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yes, I have seen this video and have followed the steps...the only thing I didn't do was "merge" before trying to capture...is this a necessary step?