Help; Capture Locking Up with Canon Elura 90 DV

[bj4jc]

Hi,

I have a Canon Elura 90 DV camcorder. I've tried three different applications (Nero, PowerDirector, Win MovieMaker) to try and capture video from a DV tape to my hard drive and the capture always starts just fine but locks up after some random period of time (e.g. anywhere from 30 sec to 20 min). The camcorder continues to play but nothing is being captured and it seems that the software is locked up or has lost communication with the camcorder.

Does anyone have any suggestions ? I have a Nexxtech n3pfwpc firewire PCI card and have read that no drivers are needed with WinXP. Could it be the firewire card ? Are there Canon drivers required ?

Thanks much for any help!

[RMarshall]

Hi bj4jc

I am having a similar problem, did you ever work out the cause and a solution to your Canon Elura 90 capture issue?

Thanks,
Richard

[bj4jc]

Hi Richard,

I can't say for sure that I ever discovered the exact source of the problem, but I suspect it may be a hardware problem related to the DV capture card in my PC. The Nexxtech DV capture was a cheap one and probably doesn't have much memory/resources on the card itself.

I wound up trying two things that seem to be getting me by: (1) I plugged the firewire cable into a different port on the 3-port capture card. (2) I've been using Windows Movie Maker to capture the raw avi video from my camera. And then I go back to PowerDirector 8 to edit and produce. PD8 is where I was having most of my original capture problems.

Finally, I have to say that I've only captured short (i.e. < 15min) clips for some time now. If I tried longer clips I may still run into the same problems. Not sure.

Hope this helps,
Joey