It's very strange.

Today I tried to capture some images I had taped in HDV, downconverting to DV. The video captures OK... but I get no audio!

There's audio, of course, as I listen to it as it's captured, but the files are mute.

Right now I took another tape that was recorded on my PDX10, in DV, and played/captured to my PC with the Z1, and audio gets captured fine.

Is there some setup step I am missing to capture from HDV?

What editing software are you using and what are your project settings?

What editing software are you using and what are your project settings?

In this case I was not using any editing software, but WinDV, a simple but very effective capture program.

For settings it has only two: type 1 avi (iavs) and type 2 avid (vid + aud). It was set for type 2.

Do remember, as I said, that I put a DV recording first on the Z1 and I did capture with sound. Keeping all things equal I inserted and HDV, and got video but no audio.

Problem solved. Or at least I found part of the reason for my problem, even if I am not sure how to solve it.

The problem is something on the XP and the SP3 update, probably dealing with the audio driver. I remember reading there might be a problem with the HD Realtek drive, and there was a fix file for that, which I never installed. Maybe it's time I do.

What I did was boot-up my machine using another HD I have, with an XP S2 fresh installation, and capture from there. The sound came out alright.

In any case, if someone has a similar problem be aware that this "mute problem" might happen.