My Computer wont capture video from fireiwre (Please help!!)

[enchantedbear]

Any Ideas's why my firewire wont capture my Panasonic dv950 mini dv?
I have used every program out there to capture, premiere 6 says that it is "offline".

The camera will work on my friends mac, and the firewire port is good since it works with my firewire HD. I have tried 2 of everything, cables firewire ports...

Sometimes Avid dv will capture about 2 seconds then stop. for some reason I cant get the Mini dv and the computer to connect. I have booted with it in camera and video mode, still nothing.

I am using windows 2000, dual 1900mp athlons geforce 4 128MB ram 1 gig ram...

Any ideas? please help!!!

[Allan55]

Hi,

There are known problems with some cameras/devices and firewire cards using the Texas Intument xx23 version chips (the D-Link firewire card has been mentioned). Others have also reported various problems with "many" different firewire cards. Changing the card is something to try.

Allan

[VideoMann]

Many programs do not support Dual CPUs. I think Premiere does.
I assume you know very well how to configure the camera for sending the video signal to the computer. Many times people forget to flip a switch on the camera, or load a tape, or engage it (depends on the proper procedure for the camera).

What happens when you hook the camera to the computer?
Do you get recognition on Device Manager that a new hardware has been connected ?

It could be a driver problem or registry problem.

[yg1968]

I don't know much about Premiere but some programs have trouble capturing DV (especially DV that is being passed through from a VCR). Perhaps, you can try these shareware programs to see if it works any better:

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/support/display.asp?FileID=910&ProductID=438

http://www.carr-engineering.com/dvio.htm

On my camcorder, you have to select DV out from the camcorder's menu to get an image on the computer.

[Banko]

I have a Panasonic DV402, and to capture using that you have to set the camera to VCR, and try to use the AC adaptor. Though I use SC Live! to capture, because Premiere gives me frames drops into 30 minutes of the tape!

[enchantedbear]

To add more info to the situation, The only program that will work with the camera so far is Avid DV. Avid will capture about 2 seconds of video, at times it will even allow me to export it as a "mov" file. If I play the video it will appear in the capture window. however when I hit the record button it wont capture more than 2 seconds worth???

In some ways it proves to me the port is good, because It will show video, or camera, it just cant capture it. Im defraging my HD, I heard that may help. Its just the strangest thing. Thanks for everyone who wrote back, im grateful for the time, and braincells.