Computer and Camcorder not working together...

[JonnyOneNut]

If anyone can solve this problem they will be considered a Genius in my book, b/c i have had this problem for about 2 years.

I have an MSI K7N2G-ILSR mobo. AMD 1600+, XP Home, integrated video, a 40 and 120 GB hard drives (western digital). This board also has an integrated firewire, IEEE 1394 port. When I hook up my Sony DCR-TRV11 Mini-DV cam to it, XP recognizes it and asks me what i want to do with it. I select windos movie maker, it opens and then just sorta hangs. The only way to get out of movie maker is to turn off the cam, and then everything frees right back up to normal. I have also tried Premiere and Vegas Video, they all do the exact same thing, just freeze! I tried a different firewire card and it does the exact same thing. I took the firewire card down to my junky computer running XP home and it can capture video fine. I also have tried it with an AGP GeForce 2 video card, still same results.

What in the world could be wrong? I am open to ALL suggestions. Please help, i have so many tapes i want to start editing.

thanks in advance, jon

[D_Knife]

download DVIO and try it - Movie Maker looks for all capture cards - maybe it's getting confused with something in your system
If DVIO fails to work then get a different firewire interface
the one on your mainboard is a Nvidia chipset - possibly it has some DV issues
try a cheap VIA firewire chipset and see how you go
Try and stay clear of Texas Instruments firewire chipsets - the new ones are ok but some of the older chips had DV problems as well.

[JonnyOneNut]

Tried the DVIO program, it does the exact same thing, locks up when i try to capture. Its not the integrated firewire card, b/c i have a pinnacle card also and i get the same results. When i try the pinnacle card on my other computer, i can capture fine.

[JonnyOneNut]

I think i fixed the problem!! For anyone who also has had this problem here's the fix. Connect the camcorder and wait for windows to recognize it, once it picks it up don't try to capture any video. Just go to the device manager and uninstall it, but keep the camcorder on. Restart the computer leaving the cam on and when it boots up, it should pick up the cam and reinstall the drivers for it and you should be able to capture fine!

[D_Knife]

do you have to do that everytime you want to capture ???
or jsut once to get things sorted out

[troyvcd1]

I never could get windows movie maker to work. I got ulead videostudio to capture and it worked with no problems.

[JonnyOneNut]

Every time i want to capture i have to uninstall and then restart. This has worked for Movie Maker and also works for Vegas Video, which did not work before.