Importing footage via USB: No sound, please help

[Stang68]

Hey everyone,

My friend called me and they are trying to import footage from a Sony harddrive Handycam to their MBP over USB. They can find the footage and drop it on the desktop, but when they play it, there is no audio. Anyone have any ideas? I am new to the harddrive game...always been a Mini-DV man.

Thanks!

 

[dejo]

They probably need to demux the footage. That's normally the reason for no audio.

 

[Stang68]

They probably need to demux the footage. That's normally the reason for no audio.

What does this mean?

Edit: Nevermind, got it. I don't know if she is going to be able to do that. Also, is there always a problem with Sony and Macs?

 

[oculus42]

Muxing and/or codec

What format does the camera store the video files in? The problem might be the correct codec is missing, or that the audio needs to be de-muxed. "Mux" is multiplexing, which is when two or more things are included together to transmit at the same time. The player may be skipping over the audio track because it doesn't expect it to be included in such a way.

 

[Stang68]

What format does the camera store the video files in? The problem might be the correct codec is missing, or that the audio needs to be de-muxed. "Mux" is multiplexing, which is when two or more things are included together to transmit at the same time. The player may be skipping over the audio track because it doesn't expect it to be included in such a way.

I am going to ask her right now.

 

[oculus42]

Also, is there always a problem with Sony and Macs?

My friends have a hard drive-based video camera. The files it creates are MPEG-2 files. They needed the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback component to import them into iMovie properly. This may be the case for you, but I couldn't say without more details. VLC might be able to convert them into another format, or you can use a program like VisualHub (No longer available, sadly).

 

[Stang68]

My friends have a hard drive-based video camera. The files it creates are MPEG-2 files. They needed the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback component to import them into iMovie properly. This may be the case for you, but I couldn't say without more details. VLC might be able to convert them into another format, or you can use a program like VisualHub (No longer available, sadly).

This sounds like it could work. I use MPEG Streamclip to convert stuff, now. Great program, btw

 

[Stang68]

Ok, so the files are mpg files. Any ideas on what to do?

Thanks, everyone.