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Creating Home Movie MPEGs from Sony MiniDV Camcorder

Apr 9, 2011 11:07AM PDT

We have a Sony MiniDV camcorder about 8 years old. We have about a dozen tapes we need to turn into files we can watch on our computer and also place on discs to view on a DVD player. The computer we wish to do this on is a Windows 7 machine. I downloaded the drivers for our camera and ripped one tape, but after ripping I discovered that the entire tape is broken up into several files consisting of about 5 minutes of recording each. Does anyone know if it is possible change the settings to allow for a single file per tape or is there a third party software that will allow for this? Thanks a bunch for any help.

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