Thanks for the suggestion. Your solution of cut and paste makes a lot of sense. I was over complicating the problem.  

I'm trying to make a DVD study guide for teachers. On the DVD will be videos and photos. I'd also like to add a document section containing study guide text. It's about eight pages long, and is currently in a Word document format, but can be saved as a.pdf, or other type of file. Have saved it in a variety of formats, in a file folder on ...

Thanks for the heads-up. I see by the description though, that it is only 18A. I tried a similar unit from Black and Decker. Made the mistake of thinking that if it was large and heavy, it would be enough. It only runs the camera and VTD 8-9 hours. Neither the camera nor the VTD run off the USB.

Wow, you're a wealth of information. I suppose this whole project could have been quickly resolved if I had the faintest clue about electronics. I consider myself lucky to get the batteries into a flashlight the right way, and so have to content myself with a lot of trial and error . . . mostly error.  I figured power requirements by adding ...

It worked like a charm. Recorded for eight hours. Hit ''stop'' then recorded for 10 minutes. Plugged flash drive into computer and bingo. There were three files of 6 & 2 hours and 10 minutes.  Thanks again for your suggestion. I wasted several days looking for a much more complicated solution, trying to find someone at Pinnacle, the ...

Thanks a lot for shedding some light on this. Actually, there was a second file, but it had 0 bytes. I was running the whole system -- camera, VTD and flash drive -- off a battery and had just let it run until the battery died. That may account for the lost file. Will crank things up and see what happens.

I'm trying to develop a research recording device for field studies. I have a miniature video camera that I plug into my Pinnacle VTD, and have plugged a 64GB flash drive into the other end. I hit ''record'' and everything worked great. I recorded for 12 hours, but when I plugged the flash drive into my computer it had only 6 hours (4GB) of video ...