Thanks so much for the advice – I had high hopes, unfortunately, still no luck. Still getting the “unable to locate” and “unable to initialize video deck” messages. I’m not sure how to check that I recorded in DV-NTSC, but in looking into the camera’s recording set-up it appears my recording speed was SP (not LP) and my audio was 48K/16bit.
I’ll continue to try different things and if you have any further advice it’d be greatly appreciated.
Sarah