Recording Video: 1394 Firewire Problem
I am using Windows XP Professional and Adobe Pro 1.5.
My capture device is the Pinnacle Studio 9 Movie Box Deluxe. I am using a Panasonic DVC80 DV camcorder. My problem is the computer will not recognize the DV cam. When I open Adobe, and the capture window it will not recognize it and I can't capture. However there are times it WILL recognize it and I can capture just fine. Most times if I leave it sit all connected, eventually it recognizes it. This could be 5 minutes or half an hour. I have started the computer with everything connected and powered up. I have also tried waiting until the system boots and then connecting the camera. SOmetimes in the middle of capturing it will suddnly stop recognizing the camera. A few minutes later, it finds it again. I have checked all compatibility lists. I downloaded the XP hotfixes and patches. I updated the capture software drivers at Pinnacle's site. Still no luck. My last recourse is I downloaded XP Service Pack 2 and am installing now. As I do this, the cam was suddenly recognized after being connected for over 25 minutes. Anyone out there have an idea? Thank You, Bruce |
Hi Bruce,
It could be a driver problem, or a faulty Firewire hardware :!: First, try uninstalling any Firewire drivers you have, and reinstall them. If that fails, try to get (borrow?) a Firewire PCI card, and use that instead of the one you are currently using. -kwag |
Thanks Kwag!
I installed Service Pack 2 and all seemed fine. I did several restarts and the cam was recognized everytime. While capturing, the system locked up. When I restarted it, it no longer recognized the camera. I am now REINSTALLING SP2 and it has just installed. I am restarting as I type this. Now we will see if the cam is recognized. I do have a firewire PCI card in there. However Adobe does not recognize it. It's there and the sound beeps when I unplug the wire. I don't know why this is. OK...it's rebooted and I am opening Adobe's Capture window... Nope. It does not recognize it. Any ideas? Bruce |
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(1) Uninstall all Firewire drivers. (2) Remove PCI card and change it to another slot. (3) Reinstall drivers and try again! -kwag |
As always, thank you, but your last suggestion didn't help.
Would it have something to do with the authenticity of the XP OS? I am wondering if the person who assembled my computer put an authetic copy on there? I am trying to find compliance with the cam wth Adobe but they don't list it yet I know sometimes they change the model #'s and the cams are compatible. All I know is I have pretty much tried everything I know of. Any help would greatly be appreciated. The whole thing simply is not consistent. In additin the Adobe capture will not allow me to use the 1394 firewire card. I uninstalled, changed slots...nothing. Here's a thought...I have just discovered that my copy of Windows XP is not a registered copy. It is unlicensed. I tried to validate it and MS said it was not a valid keycode. Would this have anything to do with it? Bruce |
Anyone
KWAG or anyone able to help with this? Aside from a hardware problem
with Pinnacle's Moviebox...is it an XP issue? |
Hi Bruce,
Have you tried any other programs, other than Adobe? Just to see if it's the program that messes up the Firewire driver somehow when it runs? -kwag |
I think I may have narrowed it down to the camera hardware. I have access to an almost identical system, with same Pinnacle hardware. Did the same thing.
Now, when I tried to capture, the same things happened on the entirely separate system. When I connected the SVHS and analog audio cables to the Moviebox Deluxe USB housing and THEN connected the 1394 firewire cable, it recognized everything and I captured just fine. Kwag, thank you for all your help because it made me go through and make sure all software was correct and I discovered, through your help, I had downloaded the wrong Studio 9.4 patch from Pinnacle. This site is great. I hope anyone with similar issues gets something from these 1394 posts! Bruce |
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