Can't capture on Sony DCR TRV110

[slnorth]

I was given this dig hi 8 camera to capture and make a DVD from its contents. I hooked up the firewire that I had to go out and buy to the Pinicale capture card. Studio 8.x recognized a DV camera but nothing else and had an Initialization error "Studio is trying to initialize a DV or Dig 8 Cam via 1934 port."
It said to try going through setup but I still couldn't get it to work. I tried different sequences of powering up and hooking up the cam but not luck.

I tried WIN dv and it gave an error when recognizing a DV camera so that wouldn't capture either.

I just bought Premier pro 1.5 but that gives an error when starting up the program "Application failed to intitialize properly (0cx0000001d)" so it doesn't even work...I think it's jeleous of the Pinical software but I haven't had time to mess with it since pinical although so frustrating does get a basic dvd done and I'm a little backed up on projects.

I obviously have several issues here including the premier pro but if there's any guidence please lend a hand.

I do have a Panisonic GS120 and I think I can xfer the video using the Svideo but not sure if that does the sound right. Perhaps I can get a 4pin to 4pin DV cable. Whether I xfer to the GS120 or the pinical break out box I still have to go back and buy some cables or wires.

Observing Veterans Day

Thanks for any help

[mwkurt]

I have a DCR TRV-107 and in order to get it to work you have to enable the firewire output through a command in the camera's menu. Try switching the camera toVCR mode and then go through the menu options until you find it. It should be a selection close to the top of the list. Under "Camera options" or something close.
Mark

[slnorth]

Awesome, thanks for the help.

FWIW This particular cam has a PB mode (whatever that is) under the VTR SET in the menu that is set to auto all the time so I switched it to hi8/8 and an icon that looks like it may be a "digital icon" showed up in the display later and all worked just fine... well accept they recorded in different audio formats and pinicale is all freaked out over it. But that's another story. Wish I could figure why Premier pro won't load up, it would be great to use that instead.

Thnx again