Help with getting video from dig cam to laptop

[davidrekayla]

Help, I just bought a winbook j4 notebook pc. I cannot figure out how to get it to recognize my Sony Handycam Dig 8 when I plug it into the firewire port. Do I need to down load software if so where or does win xp have something on to do this. Basically the computer doesn't even acknowledge that I have anything plugged into the fire port. Help

[The village idiot]

Try using something like DVio. you can get it from:http://www.carr-engineering.com/dvio.htm

[troyvcd1]

Just a thought. Make sure your cam is set to vcr.

[chewyshaun@hotmail.com]

I too have a sony digi 8 camcoreder and it is possible you may need to install a driver which is founf on the disc that came with your camera

[miketree]

Can't explain that one. The windows DV driver should work - It does with mine

[Greg12]

it doesn't acknowledge anything or does it say unknown device?

if it says unknown device u may need to use the driver or u may need to re-install windows. I had a problem that windows kept trying to force me to load a driver for the Dazzle dv bridge. The only fix was clean install.


Now however, i did along time ago read about a program that forces the sony cams to use the windows codec.


it might be something releated to ulead.

[drewson99_99]

I have the things you have and here is hat I do:

Plug in the camera (make sure that it is set to VCR)

press play

use Premiere to capture movie, and save as avi

(use virtualdub if you don't have premiere.)

I do this instead of treating the camera as a device which is recognized in of itself, because like you, I never got that to work. Software does seem to recognize it though.

If I am speaking jibberish, please disregard it, I've been up all night trying to fix an mpeg2 file that isn't burning right.

Andy

[Greg12]

can't use virtual dub with firewire devices.