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Hello,
I recently got my hands on a Sony DCR-TRV900. It seems to record and playback normally.
I am trying to capture video from it to my computer via a firewire card (which works fine for my Nikon Scanner) and Sony/Magix Vegas video editing software.
However the DCR-TRV900 will not show up in Device Manager. I hear the connect "boinks" and then disconnect "boinks". Vegas does not see it either.
I've Googled the issue and found conflicting info....some say, yes, Windows 10 supports this camera natively, other posts (on a Sony forum) say that, no, the DCR-TRV900 will not work with Windows 10.
Any definitive answer?
Thanks for any help.

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Welp, according to a veteran member on the Sony/Magix Vegas Pro forum, support for MiniDV and HDV video capture HAS been dropped from their newer versions.
After a bit of Googling and fiddling (while the Vegas software was closed), I was able to get "Sony DV Camcorder" to show up in Device Manager and capture some footage from the Sony DCR-TRV900 camcorder using WinDV. I was also successful capturing some HDV footage from my old Sony HDR-HC7 using the HDVSplit utility.
Oh, the good ol' days of video!
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I had windows 10 installed on a core2quad machine and was able to use the firewire link of MiniDV camcorders with capture software no problems. I am not sure about windows 11 though. Glad you managed to solve it!
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There are sometimes some ways to use Firewire on Win8/10/11, but that's just drivers, and getting Windows to "see" it as a connected device. Software support is another matter entirely, and almost everything has discontinued Firewire/IEEE1394 by now (often long ago).

Magix is just the latest owner of former Sony (for Sonic Foundry) software, and they made a lot of cuts at the transition of ownership.

Back up. Are you trying to transfer DV footage from a camera? Forget Vegas/whatever. All you need (and want!) is the streamlined tool WinDV (or Scenalyzer, though a tad less streamlined).

HDV needs different software from DV.

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Yes, I was trying to capture DV footage from camera. I was using Vegas because I am a longtime, albeit infrequent, user of the software. I started with "Video Factory" from Sonic Foundry back in 1999! That was bought by Sony and became "Vegas" and then Magix bought the software and is still "developing" it (sorta). I stopped upgrading at Vegas 17. The legacy capture utility within Vegas was always very useful. I've been out of the loop re: Vegas for several years, what with Resolve and 4k footage, etc. I didn't know the MiniDV and HDV capture support had been dropped.
I did use WinDV for the MiniDV capture and HDVSplit for the HDV capture. Both worked great! So simple turned out to be better. :-)
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