Newbie having problems with HDV footage I want to edit

[ukstevied]

Hi There,

Sorry If I am at wrong section or this has been asnwered before.

I recently hired a SONY HVR A1E (HDV Tapes) and recorded an event in the top quality setting 1080i.

I then migrated this via firewire onto my laptop but the only prog that would see the camera was MSMM and it transferred the file as a MS DVR file ?? I have done some mess about editing before using a Videora product but it couldnt see camera and I would like to use this again.

I try converting to AVI/MP4/MOV and it takes hours only to be out of synch music / video and bad quality.

I am thinking of giving up and handing tapes into a company who will transfer onto DVD for £30 but the idea was to let me do this as a mini-project / intro into editing.

Any help would be appreciated but currently the MSDVR files work perfectly(Large as they are) and I do not have a camera presently to try and transfer. (waiting on payday) therefore I have to either go to company for transfer or convert files I have currently.

Thanks in advance for any advice
Stevie

[Midnight Blue]

I would recommend re-capturing the tape as a .avi file. Except you probabley don't have the camera any more so you can't.

You should be able to play the file in media player. To convert it ? You give THIS a try. They claim to be able to do it.

[ukstevied]

Thanks so much I'll give this a try tonight...