Issue with Sony GV-D200 to Canopus ADVC110 to Ulead VideoStudio 11.0

[Phoenixdark]

Ok, here goes. I have a Sony GV-D200 "Video Walkman" digital video cassette recorder for my 8mm tapes. I am trying to transfer them to my computer in order to create DVD's of my home videos. My capture card is the external Canopus ADVC110 and I am using Ulead VideoStudio 11.0. When I use normal A/V (the ol' red and white) cables and s-Video everything works fine. If I try to use i-Link firewire, however, I get this response from the ulead program:

Capturing failed.
The file created is corrupted and unusable.
It will be automatically deleted.

Am I being a complete noob by assuming that the quality using the i-Link will be that much better than using the A/V and s-Video cables? And if it will be that much better why wont it work using the i-Link cable?

Thank you in advance for any help anyone might be able to provide.

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[harley2ride]

It could possibly have something to do with your iee1394 driver. Depends on which chipset you have. I have 2 iee1394 ports on my pc. One is through a tv tuner card, and one is on the mother board. I have problems with the iee1394 on the tv tuner card, but the motherboard firewire works just fine.

[edDV]

It should work connecting the GV-200 directly to the IEEE-1394 port. Disconnect the ADVC. The GV-200 should respond to tape transport control (aka device control) like a camcorder and also should work with device control turned off for input analog dubs. The ADVC always needs device control disabled in the ULead menus.

[Phoenixdark]

OK...will do...sounds like that's what harley2ride was saying as well...will have to go get a 4pin/6pin cable. Thank you both very much for your responses.

[Phoenixdark]

Plugged the GV-200 directly to the IEEE-1394 port and I am still having the same problem. I have tried with the device control disabled and with the default MS 1394 device control. When I have it disabled it seems to run fine but then when I stop capture I get the same error as before: Capture failed.
The file created is corrupted and unusable.
It will be automatically deleted.

When I use the default MS 1394 device control I immediately get the above error just as I did when I was using the ADVC.

Any other ideas?

[edDV]

Plugged the GV-200 directly to the IEEE-1394 port and I am still having the same problem. I have tried with the device control disabled and with the default MS 1394 device control. When I have it disabled it seems to run fine but then when I stop capture I get the same error as before: Capture failed.
The file created is corrupted and unusable.
It will be automatically deleted.

Any other ideas?

Does it do that with short test captures?
Are you having similar problems capping analog from the ADVC?
Can you cap a Digital8 tape from the D-200?
Is anything working?

At this point describing what works will help.

If nothing works, I'd say move it all to another computer with an IEEE-1394 port and try again.

[edDV]

Another torubleshooting strategy is eliminate ULead VS 11 from the issue and cap with WinDV.

Keep the check mark off the little box next to "capture" to disable device cue dialog.

[Phoenixdark]

Does it do that with short test captures?
Are you having similar problems capping analog from the ADVC?
Can you cap a Digital8 tape from the D-200?
Is anything working?

At this point describing what works will help.

If nothing works, I'd say move it all to another computer with an IEEE-1394 port and try again.

Analog works just fine. Both my devices (JVC HM-DH5U D-VHS Digital HDTV Recorder and Sony GV-D200 Digital Cassette Recorder) play analog tapes and have the ability for me to connect to the ADVC either with A/V and S-video cables or with firewire. Both work just fine through the ADVC when using A/V and S-video cables but neither work when using the firewire (either through the ADVC or straight into the computer). I know the firewire port works because when I'm using the A/V and S-Video cables through the ADVC the ADVC is plugged into that very firewire port. Unfortunately I have no Digital8 tapes. They're all Video8.

[Phoenixdark]

WinDV works like a charm. Thank you very much. Good thing I'm only using the trial version of Ulead.

[harley2ride]

I've used Ulead Studio 11 to capture many times, with no problems. But I have the full version of it too...

[edDV]

I think he had Ulead set for compressed capture rather than DV. Easy to do. ULead is far from "sailor proof" (an old DOD term).