no video import with PMB

[mangelus]

Last Year I borrowed a Sony Cam (HDR-XR550E) to make some Vids with it. In the meanwhile I've got a new computer. The videos I took I stored on a USB storage. I reinstalled PMB on my new machine and now I wanted to register the folder on the USB storage  with the videos inside in PMB. But it doesn't work: Only pictures was shown - no vids. Do I need another software or codec or sth like this to make PMB recognize the videos?

Many thanks and kind regards,

Mattes

[stcampb89]

Hi Mattes.

I am not sure if I can help, but I have a SONY HDR8r which is great, Lots of Videos o n  the BIG internal disc.

I had to upgrade my PC for SONY VEGAS due to render speeds, etc.

Also had new WIN 7

So I downloaded the NEW VERSION OF PMB which I think is better.

But it did not know about all the transfers I had already done.

SO I asked on an umber of Forums but got NO replys which actualy helped.

In the end I down loaded all my videos again 1000's it took all one night.

I am now trying to JUST DOWNLOAD THE NEW videos from today, it i s still taking ages to 'Prepare'

I will let you know if it works tonight.

Stewart

[sacinco]

Hi, I saw no real answer to this problem but I'm facing the same sisuation. I hope Sony support or others could help me out! I just changed my old WinXP for a new Win7 64bit. I used PMB since many years and I always stored my AVCHD files on external HDs. I have 3 TB of videos and I installed PMB latest version to my new PC, then I told PMB to register the folders from external USB HDs where I have all my stored videos. The folders can be tagged but just JPG files are shown while all Videos cannt be seen. I also tried to "update the database" function and other tricks but did not helped. Please if anyone knows how to solve it otherwise....

Thanks'

[blaireau_photo]

Hello sacinco,

Could you just confirm two details for me so that I can investigate this further:

1) The model of video camera that you are using

2) The version number of PMB software

Thanks,

Simon

[mangelus]

The problem is that it seems that some important parts of pmb will only be installed when the camera is plugged in. Thumbs up for this 'intelligent' software...