Last night I managed to master some videoclips registered with my camcorder by a friend of my wife and I unveiled an amount of issues in the software, the operating system, and the malfunctioning hardware that made me so angry.

The nastiest has been using the software bundled with my camcorder, a JVC GZ-MG135E model unit, equipped with a 30GB hard disk drive and a SDHC memory card slot.

The Cyberlink software is a suite of apps, PowerCinema NE, PowerProducer 3.7, and PowerExpress NE.

The strangest issue has been exploited by the authoring application, installed from the CD-ROM included in the camcorder box, PowerProducer 3.7, which doesn't recognize the files saved by the camcorder! The videoclip sequence is something completely absurd for the software and it gives a mysterious 80004005 error.

Here it is the trick to make the software able to manage the files: just copy the files from the camcorder folders to your local disk drive and rename each file from .MOD extension to .MPEG, because they are really MPEG files.

Another demanding task was focusing that my DVD burner bundled in my laptop is partially out of order, almost as the whole computer, after three long years of hard work between Verona and Padua. PowerProducer and Nero alert that they cannot burn the clips, although Nero Burning ROM is a bit more detailed about the failure, with an interesting "Power Calibration Error", which means nothing, but you may guess that the DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD-RW recorder is very near to its tomb.

I should think about a new notebook, before the current one blows unexpectedly while number-crunching on what-so-ever computation...