I'm using Windows 8.1 to import video content from a canon DV camcorder via the firewire port on my PC.

I'm using the 2012 version of movie maker and telling it to break the output video into different files for each scene.

I select import video from device and Movie Maker imports the video. It outputs a folder with todays date which has a 12GB temp file in it and a folder with the date taken range for the videos that were on the tape.

Inside that folder there are lots of individual avi videos as I would expect but all of them are 0K in size.

I guess something is going wrong when converting the temp file to the individual video files. What could this be?

Other observations. When the import is going on I can see the video in the preview screen on the PC and on the camcorder itself.

When the video gets to the end, Movie Maker starts the import process again, i.e. it goes back to the screen where I give my video a name. Not sure if this is correct behaviour?