A way to test for bad clips:
When you are ready to go to sleep set up a playlist in Windows media player. Just drag all the clips into the playlist on the right. Save the playlist. Hit the play button and hit the sack. If there is a bad clip WMP hopefully will come up with an error playing it and the bad clip will be highlighted in the playlist.
To find more bad clips open the saved playlist then clean out all the clips before and including the bad one. Then hit play to work your way down the playlist.
:scratchchin: That would work, except I only had 3 clips and they were each about an hour long. I am pretty sure that I rewound a small section of the tape while I was importing. That always causes a bad clip.
Basically, I just imported it into the computer one whole tape at a time. When I started the 3rd tape, I realized it was allready about 45 seconds into it and hit rewind while it was still importing. Well, that final tape had no sound to it, so I am guessing that is it.
Pinnacle cuts it up into every scene change automatically, but you can't play that through WMP, only the Pinnacle Editor until after you render it (It won't render, is the problem). The whole section plays fine through Pinnacle...I am going to save the project to a disc and see if my brothers computer will render it with a different version of pinnacle.