ADVC-100 with Pinnacle Studio 10

[mmol]

I have got a Canopus ADVC-100 and I want to use it with Pinnacle Studio 10, but Studio doesn't recognize it. Is that solvable?

[edDV]

Are you sure? Does it show up in Windows Movie Maker or WinDV?

I don't have Studio 10 but v8 and v9 see the ADVC.

[Mr. Dweezel]

I have got a Canopus ADVC-100 and I want to use it with Pinnacle Studio 10, but Studio doesn't recognize it. Is that solvable?

Was it working before?

I have Studio 8 and the ADVC 100. Occasionally Studio fails
to recognize the 100 so this is what I do...

1. Turn the 100 off and then back on.

2. Unplug the firewire cable and then plug it back in.

Usually that works but a few times I also had to reboot
after I did those two things.

[mmol]

First I used it with EZedit and EZvideo and I needed a special card for it. It worked fine, but is a little to old. If I use EZvideo to capture and then convert it to another avi format, then Studio 10 can work with that file. But that takes a lot of time.
Thanks for the reactions. I will try your suggestions.

[dwill123]

I have ADVC-100 with v9 Pinnacle. I find that everything (ADVC 100, VCR or camcorder) has to be powered up before I boot my PC for Pinnacle to see everything.

[mmol]

It doesn't show up in movie maker. Maybe my connection isn't good. With connecting the ADVC-100 to the card, I can use it with EZ video, but not with pinnacle. So I put the cable in the dv i/o at the front of the advc and just put the other side in a firewire port. But doesn't work. Is my connection wrong?
Sorry, but I can't try your suggestions, because I haven't got my camera now and you need your camera to test if he recognize it, if I'm right. I will try it over a week.

[edDV]

Are you cycling the big silver button on the ADVC to firewire out?

This would be the rightmost blue LED with IEEE-1394 cable connected to the rear.

[FulciLives]

You could always use something else to capture ... like WinDV or DVIO both of which are freeware programs ... then import the capture into Pinnacle Studio 10 afterwards for post processing.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[mmol]

I'm sorry, non of all work.

[mmol]

Isn't there any driver for or something else??

[edDV]

If WinDV doesn't work, your IEEE-1394 card or your XP installation is screwed. WinDV is just a user interface for DirectShow (part of DirectX). Try a new $10 IEEE-1394 card before going the windows reinstall route.

[mmol]

That's not it. I tried it on 2 computers. Windows XP home and mediacenter edition. Is there anybody who has a patch or driver or something, because it is pretty old hardware. And I always worked with the ezdv card (first worked fine). But through firewire it doesn't work.

[edDV]

That's not it. I tried it on 2 computers. Windows XP home and mediacenter edition. Is there anybody who has a patch or driver or something, because it is pretty old hardware. And I always worked with the ezdv card (first worked fine). But through firewire it doesn't work.

You need a working IEEE-1394 port to use the ADVC-100. For XP, the IEEE-1394 card needs to be OHCI compatible and DirectX needs to be version 8 or later. There is no specific driver for DV devices. The port is supported by XP.

[harley2ride]

I know that with my ADS PYRO AV/LINK, I leave it turned off until I'm ready to use it. As soon as I turn it on, it comes up and asks me what software I want to capture with, and gives me choices of Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere, Nero, Vegas, Ulead Studio, and a few other options for other softwares that I have installed. When I try to open a capture program while the unit is already on, sometimes it works, and sometimes it has problems detecting everything. It always works correctly, when I power it on, and wait for it to detect, and then select my application from the list that comes up on the screen.

[SerbianBoss]

I am using Canopus 110 and Pinnacle studio 10.5 plus without problems.

Your problem probably is your firewire on computer.

Try on another computer or buy new firewire card.

[mmol]

I did try it on two computers. I think the ADVC is broken. It even doesn't work with EZDV very good anymore.

[edDV]

Have you called Canopus support? They usually answer fairly fast.

[mmol]

Thanks for the reactions.
The solution is too easy. The firewire cable was broken. Only one problem. I can see my video in the screen of studio. But when I told him to record, the screen went black and he closed
himself.
What to do about that?

[mmol]

I will make another topic for this problem.

[Cobra]

Please continue to use this topic.

[harley2ride]

Pinnacle software has been know to be buggy for quite a few people. Make sure you have all current updates and patches downloaded from the Pinnacle web site, and see if that helps. If it doesn't, try using huffyuv, virtualvcr, virtualdub, etc, to capture and see if they work.

[FulciLives]

Pinnacle software has been know to be buggy for quite a few people. Make sure you have all current updates and patches downloaded from the Pinnacle web site, and see if that helps. If it doesn't, try using huffyuv, virtualvcr, virtualdub, etc, to capture and see if they work.

That really doesn't apply to the Canopus ADVC-100

However if you recall I said the following early on in this thread:

You could always use something else to capture ... like WinDV or DVIO both of which are freeware programs ... then import the capture into Pinnacle Studio 10 afterwards for post processing.

The problem before was the FIREWIRE cable so if Pinnacle is still giving you trouble now ... it's time to retry WinDV or DVIO or even ScenalyzerLive (although SL is payware).

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[mmol]

OK, I think I will capture with another program. But when I used my old firewire cable, even win dv didn't work.
Thanks for the reactions.

[FulciLives]

OK, I think I will capture with another program. But when I used my old firewire cable, even win dv didn't work.
Thanks for the reactions.

I thought you said the original FIREWIRE cable was broken and that is why you couldn't get the Canopus ADVC-100 to work ... you even said at one point that you thought it (the Canopus ADVC-100) was broken.

Then you said it was a bad FIREWIRE cable.

Then you said Pinnacle was still giving you issues so I said to retry the other programs thinking that when you tried them last you were using the not-working FIREWIRE cable.

You aren't being very clear which doesn't help you know! :P

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[mmol]

No, before I knew my firewire cable was broken I tried WinDV. Ok, I'm sorry. I wasn't very clear. But this is how it went:
- EZDV wasn't working well anymore, so I tried to connect the ADVC-100 with firewire to the pc and I tried to use Pinnacle.
- Then I tried other programs (like moviemaker and WinDV), because Studio didn't work.
- Even that didn't work, so I tried it on another compute, without succes.
- So I thought the ADVC was broken.
- But no, the cable was broken. I tried a new cable.
- Now the pc could see the ADVC and pinnacle to. Everything worked fine until I tried to record. Pinnacle crashed and he closed himself.
- Now I will try it with WinDV and import with Pinnacle.
Just too bad that I can't do it with only one program.
Isn't it just an easy setting?

[hiptune]

There are folks who have fried the ADVC unit, and also the 1395 card in the PC by connecting these fw devices together while unit is on and pc is booted up.

Best to connect this stuff with all powered down.

I blew a pw card, and also a sony dvcam deck's fw connection by hooking up things while the juice (fire) is on.

Trust me, you don't want to blow out the ADVC 100 and get no free repair.