is the HDR-SR12 Off Topic??

[David Shirey]

Well this probably isn’t a bad place to ask since I know several of us have those model cameras. I have the SR11 but I never use any of the software it came bundled with. If you do have the WinXP files, could you just copy the program files over into Vista and see how it goes? Worth a shot.

[Sean O’sullivan]

Thanks David,

Well the software is pretty good, ESPECIALLY that feature, as keeping a backup of any work just done, (without having to assess what is new and not backed up etc.) is awesome, also, the PMB is not too shabby, though a little ‘consumery’, but it has some really nice features, and while it was super-stable on my XP setup, the Disc Import was terribly buggy and even ejecting a disc caused a BSOD – but mostly the BSOD occured after the first import finished, a terrible senario, buat again, it was only for backup, fortunately that is not occuring on my Vista 64 setup, (same box and hardware).

However in answer to your solution, I may just try that, the only problem is the possibility of corrupting the whole thing due tot eh different nature of the Program Files path for Vista 64 setups, now all 32bit software gets installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\ and the C:\Program Files\ folder now holds all 64 bit installs.

I called Sony America, but they told me to call Australian support, the main reason I posted here was to see if any of you “connected” experts with sony software engineers might know how to get ahold of the original programmers to get this sorted and this important aspect (transffering settings to other PCs or installations) incoporated into the PMB/One Touch Disc Burn FAQ.

I mean worse comes to worse, I have to delete my hard drive up until the end of the last disc I made, not a huge deal, but I see the fact I can store literally thousands of minutes of high quality family vids AS WELL AS full HD work vids is a real blessing.

Sean O’Sullivan.

[Sean O’sullivan]

Ok guys,

I found the files that detail where the camera is up too, and it is in the Sony Corporation folder in your Application Data path in XP, a folder called C:\Dcs and set…\Username\Application Data\Sony Corporation\Sony Picture Utility\Accessor then in Vista 64, this folder is in C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Sony Corporation\Sony Picture Utility\Accessor

If you restore all of these folders and files between these locales it all carries everything over.

Thanks guys, I hope this helps others, and Jay, you are close, but while this is like an incremental backup, it is built into the camera drive/software, and as far as a network drive/backup system, I combine that with a nightly ghost, a raw file copy of changed files to another drive nightly – with a backup program called MyBackup, and finally i secure things further by burning the ghost and raw files periodically to discs, soon to be blurays included).

This feature of the HDR-SR12 Sony PMB suite is one of the most important aspects of HD video – that of media sensitivities, anyone who trusts a hard drive I have a bridge to sell you, i say spread the data, and there is more opportunitty for rescue as much as there is always opportunity for failure…

Sean O’Sullivan.

[Sean O’sullivan]

Ok guys,

I found the files that detail where the camera is up too, and it is in the Sony Corporation folder in your Application Data path in XP, a folder called C:\Dcs and set…\Username\Application Data\Sony Corporation\Sony Picture Utility\Accessor then in Vista 64, this folder is in C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Sony Corporation\Sony Picture Utility\Accessor

If you restore all of these folders and files between these locales it all carries everything over.

Thanks guys, I hope this helps others, and Jay, you are close, but while this is like an incremental backup, it is built into the camera drive/software, and as far as a network drive/backup system, I combine that with a nightly ghost, a raw file copy of changed files to another drive nightly – with a backup program called MyBackup, and finally i secure things further by burning the ghost and raw files periodically to discs, soon to be blurays included).

This feature of the HDR-SR12 Sony PMB suite is one of the most important aspects of HD video – that of media sensitivities, anyone who trusts a hard drive I have a bridge to sell you, i say spread the data, and there is more opportunitty for rescue as much as there is always opportunity for failure…

Sean O’Sullivan.

[Sean O’sullivan]

Well, Jay, I really wish I could afford that setup right now, but for me it is just continuous accumulation of drives and software and the ‘arrangement’ that has me in this method, but I will be looking at that, especially if I get any large projects, at the moment I have not been doing anything of any significance to justify it.

But on this ‘new’ topic, (I should start another thread, but we all knew this topic was off-topic by my subject line to begin with!), what then do you think of Drobo?

Sean O’Sullivan