Sony's MICROMV format has brought the trend of miniaturizing videoequipment to a whole new level. If you thought "Mini" DV tapes andcamcorders were small, then this next step was certainly to "micro" --with 70 percent smaller tape cartridges, and cameras that weigh under one pound.Even compared to Mini-DV camcorders, these MICROMV units are significantlylighter to pack and carry, and small enough skip the camera case and just carryin a coat pocket (www.sony.com/micromv).
As Studio imports the MICROMV video, it converts it on the fly to a standardMPEG-2 program stream before writing the data to disk. Because of thisprocessing, it does not display the incoming video while capturing. The capturedvideo then is stored as a MPG file, which means it can be read and processed bya wider range of applications.
Although I use a Geforce MX 460 Pro I've also been getting these
(intermittent) failure to open capture driver, yet iuVCR opens up
perfectly time after time! I now use this to capture and import into
Edit Studio (which captures pretty well anyway), Sonic foundry Vegas and
video Edit Magic.
iuVCR is a great little capture program!
Oh, and WinXPH+SP1, Nvidia 43.51 Dets and WDM 1.22.
I had trouble couple of days ago where the WDM disappeared in Device
Manager and I couldn't get it to re-install properly. I had to do a
system restore to the previous day to get it back.
Ho-hum!
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gillie