New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

DV Capture = :*(

post #1 of 6
7/18/06 at 8:00pm
Thread Starter 
I have a Canon ZR45MC digital camcorder that I've hooked up to my XPS Gen 2 through a 4-pin to 4-pin firewire cable to do some video capture. It worked fine the first time, I was able to use ScenalyzerLIVE and Adobe Premiere to control and capture from the camcorder. The next time I tried it (nothing had changed on my machine) neither program could capture from it. Windows detects it properly as a Canon DV Camera and ScenalyzerLIVE "sees" it but is unable to control or capture from it. Premiere doesn't even see it.

I gave up for a few months, and today I tried again. Once again it worked the first time, but after rebooting (I updated my NVIDIA drivers) it stopped. I hate this crap. It works fine on my desktop machine.

Anyone had this problem and fixed it?
Reply
Reply
post #2 of 6
7/28/06 at 3:29am
From the Wikipedia Firewire entry:

Operating system support

Full support for IEEE 1394a and 1394b is available for FreeBSD, Linux and Apple Mac OS X operating systems. Microsoft Windows XP supports 1394a and 1394b, but as of service pack 2 the default speed for all types of FireWire is S100 (100 Mbit/second). A download and registry modification is available from Microsoft to restore performance to either S400 or S800. Microsoft Windows Vista will initially support 1394a with 1394b support coming later in a service pack. [4]


I don't know if this is a potential problem (I'm not too big on firewire), but hey, it might be worth looking into.
Reply
Reply
post #3 of 6
8/1/06 at 10:24pm
Thread Starter 
well I don't know how true that is since I've benchmarked my external firewire drive at over 40 MByte/s or 320 Mbit/s, using WXP SP2. Thanks though.
Reply
Reply
post #4 of 6
8/2/06 at 12:39am
Do you have access to a desktop or another laptop (with Firewire, of course)? If so, try your camcorder on that other machine(s)...
Reply
Reply
post #5 of 6
8/2/06 at 3:43pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by galahad05
Do you have access to a desktop or another laptop (with Firewire, of course)? If so, try your camcorder on that other machine(s)...


Just a wild guess, but I am assuming that the part where he says:

" It works fine on my desktop machine."

Most likely means he DOES have access to a desktop, and that he did indeed try it, with apparent success.
Reply
Reply
post #6 of 6
8/2/06 at 3:52pm
My bad.
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Dell Notebooks - General