Make sure you don't have an empty video track above the grouped clips.

According to Wikipedia the .MOD files are simply Standard Def MPG2 files with a different file extention. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOD_and_TOD_%28video_format%29 Once you rename them you will still need to convert to something Avid friendly...

Alec, the solution is version 4.05 with one capture machine on 5.03.9 to do the AMA legwork. That adds up to stabilty plus the last good version of the Avid user interface. Forget 5.5 at the moment. JC

hey Larry, G-Spot's getting a bit long in the tooth. Last updated 2007. Have a look at Mediainfo. http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en Even has a 64bit version. JC

ST = Smart Tool

That codec appears to a VFW (video for windows) codec so it won't show up in Media Composer.(AVX) My favourite VFW AVI program is Virtual Dub. It's free and only outputs AVIs but it's complicated. You'll probably need to export an uncompressed file from MC to get started and depending on the length of your show, that could end up being

The .ave file is part of your user settings. The other part is the .avs file. Delete both files and restart.

I've run 3 U1s off a crappy old Lenovo desktop PC feeding a Unity on ethernet and topped the tranfer rate out at about 3Mbs all up. It was certainly faster than 1 or 2 U1s.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-266.58-whql-driver.html ???

http://www.mrrsoftware.com/MRRSoftware/NameChanger.html