Cari:

Thanks for the tip. If you or anyone else could answer this next question,
I'd love it:

The first time I tried this operation a few months ago, and failed, I got
discouraged and walked away.

At that time, I absolutely did ALSO try it through Roxio 7, but there seemed
to some problem with specifically chroma-phase (I work in television, so I
know some stuff). The colors were sort of negative-looking, even though I
fooled around with, again, switching the input-types, and everything else I
could find in configurations and settings.

Now, I have Roxio 8, and the button that says something like "Start Capture"
never lights up, presumably because something is wrong. I get a dialog that
says something like "Failed to draw Preview". Since the Preview window stays
blank, I'm guessing it's some setting or configuration thing that it doesn't
like about my inputs. As I've said before, I have the yellow composite video
connector from the VCR's output going to the only video input on the
computer. (Matter of fact, there are two identical ones on the TV tuner card,
and I've tried both.)

The only available "Video devices" are "Angel MPEG". Sometimes two show up,
sometimes one, and I've tried every possible combination.

Yeesh.

Any help from anyone would totally make my day, and get my eternal
gratitude. (AND my wife's gratitude, because I'm trying to make a huge
bookshelf full of old VHS tapes go away!)






"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> Windows Movie Maker is not really designed for capture of analog video.
> There are other third party programs that will capture better.... WinDVD
> Creator, PowerDirector, Nero, Roxio etc
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP)
> Printing & Imaging
>
>
>
> "yeswab" <yeswab@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news2B7DB45-663B-4C10-B5F8-1062C133E30C@microsoft.com...
> > Hi:
> >
> > I have my regular analog VCR hooked up to the video and audio inputs of
> > the
> > TV tuner card that came with my Dell XPS. The PC is running Windows Media
> > Center 2004. I DO have the appropriate adapter/converter in-line for
> > connecting the VCR's RCA connector to the S-Video connector on the card.
> >
> > Am using Windows Movie Maker. I DO have the input set to Composite (and
> > have
> > also experimented with the S-Video setting).
> >
> > I have successfully captured up to 3 minutes (very specifically 3 minutes)
> > of video and successfully saved them to files.
> >
> > However, anything ANY amount of time beyond 3 minutes, and Movie Maker
> > never
> > finishes its "importing" progress bars. Computer just hangs up. I know
> > sometimes computers are just taking a long time to do something when they
> > seem to freeze up, but I have walked away from it for hours and come back,
> > to
> > find it still stuck, instead of having completed the "Import"/saving
> > operation.
> >
> > Is some setting limiting the file size I can save? Any ideas on any aspect
> > of this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Lew
>
>
>