Freezing during capture with Sony Camcorder

[sarkless]

Periodically, whilst I'm capturing video from my Sony DCR PC120 camcorder, my PC seems to lose the video. It still recognises that I have my camcorder attached but it has stopped capture and the preview window freezes at the point when capture stopped.

This happens in both Pinnacle Studio 8 and Sonic Foundry Vegas 4 so I'm convinced it's not the software.

The only way I'm able to pick up the video again is to reboot the PC. I've tried closing the software and re-opening it and I've tried switching the camcorder off and on and neither works.

This is very frustrating because I'm having to constantly watch during capture to make sure it's working.

I'm using Windows XP, with an Intel Pentium III 930 MHz processor, 256 Mb RAM, GeForce2 MX/MX400 graphics card.

[scratchie]

I'm having the same problem. I've been capturing in Scenealyzer and WinDVD creator and either get little glitches or the picture freezes.

Oddly, I can capture DV fine from my Canopus ADVC-100. I haven't figured out what the problem is. I tried running the analog output of the Sony camcorder into the Canopus and digital out of the Canopus into my computer and that worked fine, but the picture quality suffered (obviously). My guess is that it's something to do with the Sony ILink (Firewire) output port but I have no idea what to do about it.