On 8 Feb 2000 19:13:16 -0600, Bob Howard wrote:

>My Sony TRV 310 came with the sound defaulted to 12 bit. I am using
>Video Studio 3.0 to edit my clips. I have found that Video Studio and
>all other capture and editing software do not recognize 12 bit sound
>(no codec for it). Does anyone have any ideas about capturing both
>the video and 12 bit audio into a clip that has sound in Video Studio.
>In order to make one tape I had to copy the sound to a cassette and
>match the video with the audio as best I could. Any ideas? Any help
>would be appreciated.

I assume you have found the menu item that allows you to
switch to 16-bit sound by now...? ;-) I don't know why Sony
mini-DV camcorders come with 12-bit selected... If you
can afford Sound Forge XP ($80?), it has the facility to
resample and replace AVI tracks - I used to need to do that
with a VX-1000 (12-bit only) and Premiere 4.2 (16-bit only)
sound. It takes time - and if you have captured to the 2-gig
file limit, the new file will exceed 2-gigs and the process
will crash, so be sure your files are well under 2-gigs
before converting the sound tracks...