My lesson after trying this dozens of times is to go with Firewire.
Bob
I have a Handycam DCR-DVD300 and I'm using a fairly new Toshiba laptop with 75+ gigs of free space and a gig of memory. I'm connecting via USB (The camera does not have a fire wire connection as far as I can find). The problem is that my connection to the camera keeps dropping. Sometimes in the middle of transfer, sometimes I can cause it by just pointing the software to my camera, then my dvd drive, and then back. I've used 5 or 6 software programs, all with the same result. Once the camera is "lost", I have to reboot again to get the computer to see it again. I've found several similar posts on other forums but none with a better answer than "yeah, mine does that too. sony sucks". Any ideas??

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