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So we bought this Sony digital camcorder (The TRV-22) a week ago. My wife wanted to use it to record my daughter's performance at a camp she had been in, and wanted to be able to transfer the movies to the PC - for editing, video cd burning, etc. My Dad happened to be in town, so there was the requisite "This is so easy on a Mac" abuse.
The main problem we had was two-fold:
The camera had to be in a specific mode in order to send data out the USB port to the PC
The software that came with the camera had the defaults set to capture audio or video, but not both at the same time
What kind of idiot sets up the defaults that way? Moreover, it's the stupid kind of "internationalized" software - the kind that makes all options available via inscrutable little icons without contextual help. It took us three days to find the stupid checkbox that would allow the software to receive audio and video at the same time. Stupidity!
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