[Ken Hebert]

I’m curious, did you get the batch capture to work properly in the end? I have the same problem, the cameras were all set to AUTO and the capture tool is having a very hard time finding the right TC. I switched my preset to HDV Firewire NDF and that at least gets MOST of the clips to recapture properly, but it’s not entirely reliable. I was just wondering if I should settle for this and accept the situation. I have access to the camera the footage was recorded on, and that too seems to be a little better than the HVR-M15U.

[Ken Hebert]

Ok, I figured it out. It was the deck. It was just plain broke. It only was able to put out TC for some reason. I Got my hands on another deck of the same type and it worked just find. I sent the broke out out for repairs, we’ll see what Sony has to say.

Thanks!

[Ken Hebert]

So the tapes are fine because they play in other devices besides the camera, like an HDV clamshell. It has to be something with the device. Even going out RCA there is only TC and no video, so something is clearly amiss.

When attempting to capture a black screen all I get is an error that says “no data coming from device”. So that doesn’t work. And yeah. Video and Audio are checked for capture.

I will check the HDV forums. Thanks.

[Ken Hebert]

Thanks for responding. I’ve been through the manual a bunch of times and I already had it set up that way:

Transferring the picture data from the unit
to a computer (editing machine)
•To transfer the picture data recorded on a tape to an
editing machine in HDV, set [HDV/DV SEL] in [IN/
OUT REC] menu to [HDV] (page 46), then set
[HDVtDV CONV] of [i.LINK SET] in [IN/OUT
REC] menu to [OFF] (page 47).