Help with capturing digital video

[visick42]

I'm trying to capture digital video to my computer. My camcorder, a Sony DCR-TRV17, is connected via a firewire port in my Digifire 7.1 sound card. No problems here as XP sees it and installs it without a glitch.

I'm trying to capture video with Pinnacle Studio version 7, updated to 7.15.1.

I could not get any preview to show up in the preview window, after numerous attempts. DirectX is 9, and my video card drivers are the latest Detonators. Everything on my system is up to date.

I've tried what I think is everything to get this working. Finally i rebooted my system and it worked, well it did for about 15 seconds. Then it stopped again.

Any ideas?

[visick42]

Anyone ?

[BJ_M]

if you are not using any usb devices ... turn off usb in your bios (yea - usb can affect firewire)

try another firewire card

turn off and rehook up your camera and turn it back on while winxp is still running your app .. ..

[drewson99]

I, too only get sporadic results getting the preview to work (I use Premiere) but it doesn't seem to effect the capture, so I just keep the camcorder screen popped out.

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[G-man]

See if Windows Movie Maker (comes with XP) will work. If it does, you probably have a Pinnacle software problem. If it doesn't then you probably have a hardware or XP config problem.

[visick42]

I'm using 2 USB devices. Any way of getting around it?

I can't try another firewire card, the firewire ports are on my Hercules Digifire 7.1 card. (Sound Card).

I tried with Windows Movie Maker, no go.

"turn off and rehook up your camera and turn it back on while winxp is still running your app .. .." Doesn't work either...

Nothing seems to work. I'm not getting anything conflicting in device manager.