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@zdenekrsa I regularly use Firewire to download video from a range of digital video cameras but I have never seen either of those error messages. I assume you are trying to use the DV to MPEG icon option on the Capture screen. Is that correct? If

Rescue Your Videotapes!

3 answers, most recent on 1/10/2026

RE: Hi8 Blue Screen

@kevin-c2769 Kev, it will almost certainly be either a cabling issue or digitiser settings issue. Try a Composite cable and then an S-Video cable. If no joy, try it on your TV (Composite connection only probably). In the program "Import" settings,

Movie Edit Now

8 answers, most recent on 3/25/2025

RE: Getting Firewire to work on an old laptop fitted with a FireWire socke

@AnnTH whether I can put her DV tapes in a Canon MiniDV HDV 1080i. Ann, assuming it's an HV20, 30 or 40, yes, you can play your tapes in it. It should automatically swap to "DV" mode when you hit Play. if it doesn't, dive into the PLAY/OUT SETUP

Movie Studio

69 answers, most recent on 8/10/2025

RE: Unable to import MKV files into Video deluxe 2026 Plus, Windows 10

@AAProds Thanks for your samples. I own a Sony TRV120E and have converted all my NTSC, PAL, 8mm and Hi8 tapes using it. Can I assume the capture with the GV-USB2 was to Magix MXV format? Watching your two video clips there is no noticeable

Movie Edit Now

8 answers, most recent on 3/25/2025

RE: Getting Firewire to work on an old laptop fitted with a FireWire socke

@AnnTH To be brutally frank, I suggest you use WinDV or Scenalyzer to transfer your DV files from your camcorder to your laptop, then move them to your friend's new PC. While Magix can/could transfer DV, it will bring a tape in in one big file,

Movie Studio

4 answers, most recent on 4/3/2025

RE: Recording time doesn't work in MEP2021 Plus

@MovieEditorr My understanding is the "Recording Date and Time" is only for DV-AVI, where the actual date+time is inserted into the tape as it is being recorded (a characteristic of the DV format). At any point in the recording, you can use that

Movie Studio

16 answers, most recent on 12/23/2025

RE: No video only sound

@Odd-Aagesen I have hundreds of short DV Avi's created with my Sony DV camera and the mediafiles of a few random ones are identical to your mediafile EXCEPT mine for some reason under VIDEO shows Encoder Settings (I don't think this is important)

Movie Studio

8 answers, most recent on 12/23/2024

RE: AVI - Lagarith with MP3 audio

@me_again Hi Andy . . . . we've all done things that we later regret . . . . . Ouch - however I have to agree! Looking at the info on the original and redone AVI files I suspect that you have either the 'DV Type issue' or the original file needs

Rescue Your Videotapes!

5 answers, most recent on 5/17/2024

RE: Computer doesn't see my USB Dongle in File Explorer

Canon Ultura mini DV

Movie Studio

47 answers, most recent on 8/24/2025

RE: [Solved] "Takes" functionality

Hi All, Amazing what I have learned from all your comments. Not only the “Takes” subject, but also on the VDL work flow for film creation. Many thanks for all of this. I started my project to get through the VDL editing learning curb and that is

Movie Studio

4 answers, most recent on 4/3/2025

RE: Recording time doesn't work in MEP2021 Plus

My suggestion for MAGIX: If the file is not in DV-AVI format, MAGIX could calculate the time from the creation time in the file metadata, which usually starts from the time the recording started (in this case it started 2025:04:03

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8 answers, most recent on 3/25/2025

RE: Getting Firewire to work on an old laptop fitted with a FireWire socke

Thank you John EB for your concern. I have no intention of buying any cables from Amazon. I hate Amazon and have even signed partitions against them as they have had a poor record of safety in Britain in some of their factories. If I do need

Movie Studio

16 answers, most recent on 12/23/2025

RE: No video only sound

@Odd-Aagesen Hi Please confirm what the Windows 10 pc CPU is - Intel or AMD? . . . . open the AVI files with windows mediaplayer on a widows 10 computer, no problem everything OK. . . . Odd . . . . Media Player being able to play the files on the

Movie Studio

69 answers, most recent on 8/10/2025

RE: Unable to import MKV files into Video deluxe 2026 Plus, Windows 10

cleaning head might be an idea, so long as no risk of damage. I have a bit under 60 hours of tape in total - does that count as a lot? @Gra_Ham, I'll look in my files. I remember I made notes to myself when I went through this whole process. I think

Movie Edit Now

8 answers, most recent on 3/25/2025

RE: Getting Firewire to work on an old laptop fitted with a FireWire socke

I just want to say thank you to AAProds and johnebaker for trying to help my friend and I to get her 18 DV tapes converted to digital. I am afraid that we failed. Magix Movie Edit Pro 17 Plus was installed again. When the film was started in the

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69 answers, most recent on 8/10/2025

RE: Unable to import MKV files into Video deluxe 2026 Plus, Windows 10

@Gra_Ham @johnebaker A quick DV capture from a Video8 tape of 1993 I just did. Captured via Firewire by Magix Video Deluxe 2026. No processing except movie frame rate set to 50fps to take advantage of the deinterlacing process of VDL. Please excuse

Movie Studio

43 answers, most recent on 3/7/2025

RE: Audio not importing

I do have MPC-BE as my default player. Could that provide codecs that make mine work with @CubeAce's file & not with him, @CubeAce do you have MPC-BE player? @Gid Unlikely as to my knowledge MPC, VLC and other free players don't make their

Video Pro X

62 answers, most recent on 5/15/2025

RE: Should I choose Video Pro X or Vegas Pro?

Dear friends. I plan to upload 2 files. One unedited about 30 seconds long. 24 Mbps. Another edited in with Premiere Elements version 12. 84 seconds and 30 Mbps.So you can check.But not today. I have a new PC so Thunderbird and my email folders are

Video Easy

7 answers, most recent on 9/10/2023

[Solved] Converting Sony DV videos to laptop windows

I am having the same problem. I am going to try some of the the solutions suggested and see if they work. I do not want to get a firewall but I am wondering is the ilink the cord that will plug into the extra space on the camera the looks like it m

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47 answers, most recent on 8/24/2025

RE: "Takes" functionality

@me_again, @Pete-Lowland, @browj2, @johnebaker, @CubeAce, @Can-Dive, @AAProds Hello everyone, I've been following this thread with great interest. To avoid the problems described on the forum so far, I finally decided to convert all my *.TK2 files

Movie Studio

12 answers, most recent on 3/25/2025

RE: Black screen in video

@friendflyer That fact that the file opens but goes awry after an hour IMO points to a program issue (inability to handle the complex HEVC codec with the temp files/RAM clogging up) or a computer/memory type issue. For example, many moons ago, Magix

Movie Studio

32 answers, most recent on 7/29/2024

Deinterlacing-How does Magix do it?

Scenario: DV-AVI or Analogue AVI, interlaced. Options: on the video properties menu, there are now only 3 options: Full frame (no interlacing), BFF of TFF, as well as the "Processing/Interpolate" tickbox. Question: what does it all mean? What's the

Video Easy

7 answers, most recent on 9/10/2023

RE: [Solved] Converting Sony DV videos to laptop windows

@clarisse-s Gday. Can you give us the model number of your Sony camcorder (it will be on the bottom) and the model number of your laptop and version number of Windows you have. Do you already have the Magix Video Easy/Rescue Your Videotapes program

Video Easy

6 answers, most recent on 9/9/2023

Misleading "DV Processing" Claim?

Prompted by a recent post, I had a good look at the Rescue Your Videtapes Magix page. On it is this statement: "The MAGIX USB video converter includes connections for Scart, S-Video, and RCA. This makes digitization possible for VHS, S-VHS, Video8,