How do I copy a video from tape to SD card on my Canon MVX25i? As you cannot directly download to PC from the tape I tried recording the video to a DVD on my DVD recorder - although that worked the PC nor MAC would recognise that the DVD had anything on it.

Tape video recorders are unfortunately old technology. The SD card is probably only for still pictures. I doubt if a Windows 8 laptop is designed to accommodate it either in hardware or software. If you bought the camera new, you were probably supplied with a disk containing download/capture software. Video sent to a tape is not a fully digital file in the sense that it is not read by computers and has to be captured when you play it back into the computer and turned into a video file. See if you can get a Firewire attachment or adapter -possibly into the laptops HDMI socket. The usb on the camcorder is probably just a charging point. If not, ask a friend with a desktop computer if he would be prepared to fit a firewire card -about 12UKP in UK, and capture it for you on their machine. Via Firewire, even the most basic editing suites have a capture function, and you can save the video as MP4 or AVI etc. The alternative is to take the tapes to a commercial transfer outlet -in the UK Timpsons the shoe repair people advertise this service, and they will put everything on a dvd for you.

Greetings Edward - The message means that your recording or playing directly to/from a SD card and not a DV tape and the file system on that card is damaged and the video cannot be stored on or played back from it.

It might help if you remove the SD card and reinsert but if that doesn't work you would either have to get a new SD card, or if there is data on the card that you need to retrieve, try to repair the card via a PC and some software. The software on the web HERE does a good job of recovery (I have no affiliation).

Good Luck,

Mikeywaf

you have to record the video to an sd card and then download it to your computer thats the only way

mabrickman:

From the Canon brochure for this camera, the SD Card is only able to be used for saving still images.

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Hi!
You cannot transfer the video from Mini-DV to SD card within your camera as your camcorder does not have this feature. If your purpose for finding this function is to transfer your footage to your computer, you may try using the firewire port in your camera to connect it to your pc.
If you need help with the firewire connection, feel free to post a follow up.
Hope this helps!

Hello,
you can access via USB only SD card on your camcoder.
The only way to transfer from the tape is via Firewire (IEE 1394) . You should have this port on your PC or laptop, if not you can buy external firewire card .
regards,
Konstantin

hola

That card can only be used for pictures - you need to buy tapes :)

you cannot record onto the SD card only ontothe sd card for the iamges - snapshots

There may be a YouTube video that will help with this