I had some problems with PD6 and importing analog VHS tapes, too. I had to do a "workaround" by importing it from my VHS player through a Pinnacle Movie Box, saving it as an .avi file and then importing it into PD6. I have since ugraded to PD7 and just tested all my "importing" devices - digital camera, DVD drive and VHS player. I am still using the VHS/Movie Box to get the analog file onto my hard drive, but happily PD7 at least recognizes it now, so I don't have to do that extra step in Pinnacle. I can't remember the details of what PD6 did, but I did figure out that for me in order to import analog VHS tapes, you have to select MPEG-1 in the profile section to get both sound and video. I initially selected MPEG-2 (didn't work), then selected AVI (video was fine, but sound was delayed). Any reason you need to import your file in AVI format instead of MPEG-1?

Hope that helps!
Cindy

Thanks for the reply cindy. Main reason why I want to use AVI is, I wanted to import in the first instance with as little compression as possible really. I can import in MPEG2 from analogue, and it seems as this is probably the only way to do it. Wonder what the issue is, or maybe its the video capture card, not being alble to capture in AVI???

VHS analogue quality = Mpeg1

You are not going to improve upon it by saving it to a higher res digital video format.

Cindy has provided some excellent information.

Dafydd