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Sony HandyCam to computer transfer?
This is complicated...
I filmed something on a borrowed 2006 Sony Handycam, and I wanted to download it onto my computer, but this is apparently complicated if you can't download the picture package software on the CD it came with, which their website offers without the CD, but apparently you still need a code I don't have.
When I attempted to download all of the scenes on the disc on which I saved what I filmed, six video files showed up on my DVD RW drive, which I successfully moved to my video folder. 5 refuse to play, claiming to not be compatible with Windows Media Player or Movie Maker. The sixth one plays just fine, but it's only the first 19 seconds of what I filmed. BUT, when I start at least a few seconds in and hit the fast forward button on Movie Maker, it jumps ahead to something from later in the disc, which plays out for the rest of the 19 seconds, sometimes with the audio and picture in sync, sometimes not. So it's apparently all there but not in a format I can work with.
Can any of this be remedied so I can play back and edit everything I filmed, or is my only shot really to hope that the original owner hasn't thrown out the Picture Package disc and try again after downloading what's on there? I'd be grateful for any level of expertise.
2 Answers
- Johnny MartyrLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
Hey Chris, I used to work in video duplication for television and have heard that, as with many things Sony, their DVD cameras required that you use their prioritary software to encode video off the discs. While the files you have are a universal video file format, Sony has put them in a "wrapper" that essentially will not allow them to play nice with other brands of equipment.
My best advice would phone around to local duplication services to do the work for you as they will keep obsolete/unusual software/equipment like this on hand for just such a case.
This is a major problem in the file-based world we are moving into, it's like the Wild West of formats, unlike film and analog video where every product is pretty much compatible.
Best of luck!
- lareLv 77 years ago
i don't really know what to say. all Sony miniDVD disc camcorders that i am aware of use MPEG2 for the codec. MPEG2 is universally recognized by computer video programs, including WMM and Windows media player. you might want to try making the file transfer again, perhaps there was a glitch that corrupted the file copy process. if that doesn't help, then about the only work around would be to use the AV playback from the camcorder (or a DVD player if camcorder is no longer available) into an analog capture card on the computer.