I am having the exact same problem. I too have a Sony camcorder (HDD - Hard
Disk Drive - DCR-SR62 model) which does not have Firewire capability. I have
tried to use both my USB cable and RCA jacks - both give the same error
message mentioned by Todd.
Thank you for any suggestions.
Scott
HDD cams are not compatible with Movie maker in XP. YOu either need a
different software or to upgrade to MM in a high end vista release.

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>I am having the exact same problem. I too have a Sony camcorder (HDD - Hard
> Disk Drive - DCR-SR62 model) which does not have Firewire capability. I
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Oops, also meant to say, or copy the files to your pc using the usb cable
then convert them to wmv using something like windows media encoder
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/ConvertMpeg2wmv.html
then edit in movie maker

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>I am having the exact same problem. I too have a Sony camcorder (HDD - Hard
> Disk Drive - DCR-SR62 model) which does not have Firewire capability. I
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>> > Any suggestions? Thanks!
MPuryear - 26 Apr 2008 21:05 GMT
I'm having the same problem too. I have a Sony HC DCR-SR200. I did the
download of W Media Encoder (it's free and easy to do) as suggested,
converted a movie clip that was not previously working (getting that same
errormessage), and it now works in W Movie Maker. The conversion of that
video file (47.8 MB) in W Media Encoder did take a little bit of time though
and I followed the instructions supplied at
myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/ConvertMpeg2wmv.html....otherwise it would have
taken longer guessing what to do next, so if you have a lot of video to
convert, take that into consideration.
> Oops, also meant to say, or copy the files to your pc using the usb cable
> then convert them to wmv using something like windows media encoder
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> >> > Any suggestions? Thanks!