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DCR-TRV130, firewire, import video and windows 7

I have 35 tapes to copy to my brand new desktop with firewire card. The 25 newest tapes copied fine to avi files about 13Gig for 1 hour. The last few are a problem. They are about 10 years old. I play the tape as before, click the same choices on IMPORT VIDEO and the tape plays for 1 hour. At this point, IMPORT VIDEO shows that there's only 30min or 14min or 42 min were copied and the size of the file is 6gig or 3 gig or 7gig. When I play either of these 3 files the playback is speeded up. In other words, one hour of normal play is played back in a half hour for that first tape. All 3 of these playback at a faster rate than the 25 I copied earlier this month. There are no choices to make for IMPORT VIDEO that affect recording. Any ideas on what the problem is? Thanks in advance.
tm

TM
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:57:10 +0300

My Guess is that those older tapes are recorded at different speeds than standard. I believe the standard speed is "SP". They might have been recorded at "LP". If I remember correctly, "LP" allows 2 hours of recording on 1 hour of tape.

Your DCR-TRV130 might not be ale to hand playback at "LP" mode. Instead, it plays them back at "SP" mode, therefore, the video runs twice as fast.

You can try using a video processing software (like VirtualDub) to reprocess them at half-speed. If the video and audio are good, then you are all done. But if the video and audio quality aren't up to par, then you'll have to re-transfer with the right equipment.

Chieh Cheng
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:59:12 +0300

When I played these older tapes on the camera to record to my hard drive, the video was over in one hour. After one hour with these older tapes, the casette has completely done, the IMPORT VIDEO window shows that the amount of time copied is well less that 1 hour (I've seen 2 minutes, 31 minutes, 14 minutes...) and the size of the file is no where near 13 gig like the newest 25 casettes were. I think the camera lets me choose LP or SP however I think I've always used SP since it takes one hour to complete the casette.
I would consider other video processing s-ware IF all older casettes contained 2 hours of video but I think there's some other problem.
Thanks for your quick reply.
tm

TM
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:37:54 +0300

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