Hard-drive cam owners,you're doing it all wrong,there's a much easier faster way to get footage from hard-drive cam to pc,i have a hard-drive cam and i'm using Pinnacle Studio 11.
Sony software isn't needed.
Here's what you do,plug your hard-drive cam into your pc using the usb lead,go to the start menu,click on "computer",you'll see all your "drives" listed,one of these drives will be your cam,it'll be called "drive x,y,z" click on that and you'll see your footage,just select the thumbnails that you want to transfer,right click and then "copy to folder",(not move because i still keep footage on cam just incase anything goes wrong with transfer),select "documents"then"videos" from list,then "ok",footage will then copy from cam to pc in seconds.
Unplug cam,open up Pinnacle Studio,select "edit" tab at top of screen,(no need to even use the "capture" tab),in the left window there's a drop down box,find your "documents" then "videos" and all your footage will be there and they'll appear in this window,then just drag what you want into the timeline.
This is how i always do it.