Firewire cards and DV cameras...
Discussion
Trying to get the Surrey Run 2 video into my PC at a decent quality.
Added a firewire PCI card to my PC today (winXP). All connected and working (supposedly) showing a 1394 connection in my system tray with a 400Mbps transfer rate.
Connected a friends Panasonic camcorder with DV out.
Using either Videowave or Adobe Premiere v6, I cannot seem to get them to recognise the Firewire connection and so cannot transfer any footage.
Any thoughts guys and gals...I'm desperate...to get the SR#2 video made and published.
Thanks
Steve
Added a firewire PCI card to my PC today (winXP). All connected and working (supposedly) showing a 1394 connection in my system tray with a 400Mbps transfer rate.
Connected a friends Panasonic camcorder with DV out.
Using either Videowave or Adobe Premiere v6, I cannot seem to get them to recognise the Firewire connection and so cannot transfer any footage.
Any thoughts guys and gals...I'm desperate...to get the SR#2 video made and published.
Thanks
Steve
aha,
i had a diffucult time with this one and ended up needing XP to do it....
basically you need to use the XP media player and powering the camcorder up with the PC on should activate it, think i needed to delete all the other pieces of video editing software as they stopped it working.
Word of warning, you need loads of memory and a massive hard drive to make it work!
Bennno
i had a diffucult time with this one and ended up needing XP to do it....
basically you need to use the XP media player and powering the camcorder up with the PC on should activate it, think i needed to delete all the other pieces of video editing software as they stopped it working.
Word of warning, you need loads of memory and a massive hard drive to make it work!
Bennno
quote:Were you able to record it to disk though? Was it high quality.
basically you need to use the XP media player and powering the camcorder up with the PC on should activate it, think i needed to delete all the other pieces of video editing software as they stopped it working.
How much mem and disk space (me-512RAM and 80Gb disk)
Steve
That's about enough, Steve..
Disclaimer: This is Windows 2000 I'm on about - XP is roughly the same, but a bit gay. At some point you might have to click the "stop nannying me and give it to me like a man" link in control panel.
Have a look in device manager. Right Click "My Computer" -> Properties -> Hardware Tab -> Device Manager. If you select 'View -> Devices by Connection' you can see the 1394 interface and the camera should be underneath it, hierarchically.
I used a JVC one the other day.. out of the box, one driver to load then plug it in and everything fires up. I also discovered that Video CD is crap quality and 128mb RAM is nooooooooo-where near big enough.
Disclaimer: This is Windows 2000 I'm on about - XP is roughly the same, but a bit gay. At some point you might have to click the "stop nannying me and give it to me like a man" link in control panel.
Have a look in device manager. Right Click "My Computer" -> Properties -> Hardware Tab -> Device Manager. If you select 'View -> Devices by Connection' you can see the 1394 interface and the camera should be underneath it, hierarchically.
I used a JVC one the other day.. out of the box, one driver to load then plug it in and everything fires up. I also discovered that Video CD is crap quality and 128mb RAM is nooooooooo-where near big enough.
In connections I see...
OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Icon underneath says 1394 Net Adapter
And that the device is working correctly.
It doesn't show a camcorder as connected.
Does it matter which slot I plug the cable into?
Is there a sequence, ie. plug cable into camera, then switch on?
Should I expect to have to enable the DV Out port on the camcorder, or are they always active???
Steve
OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Icon underneath says 1394 Net Adapter
And that the device is working correctly.
It doesn't show a camcorder as connected.
Does it matter which slot I plug the cable into?
Is there a sequence, ie. plug cable into camera, then switch on?
Should I expect to have to enable the DV Out port on the camcorder, or are they always active???
Steve
I've just done this (bought a camera etc, etc) I ended up buying a Pinnacle DV8 kit with Firewire card and software. Runs really well on XP (lots of Ram) just plugged it all in and off it went.
Are you sure the software packages you have understand where they are getting the video images from? I can install Premier tonight and tell you what it think is connected to my PC if that is a help.
D.
PS CarZee, XP stop denying it and come out of the closet.
PPS If anyone is running XP shove SP1 on, we've noticed speed increases on a couple of machines we've put it on.
Are you sure the software packages you have understand where they are getting the video images from? I can install Premier tonight and tell you what it think is connected to my PC if that is a help.
D.
PS CarZee, XP stop denying it and come out of the closet.
PPS If anyone is running XP shove SP1 on, we've noticed speed increases on a couple of machines we've put it on.
I got it working......you're gonna have a jolly good laugh at non-tech-boy....
Went round to Sixspeed's and tried his camera and firewire cable. To cut a long story short, I had inserted the cable incorrectly.....DUMBO!!!!
Had a big laugh...
Anyway, now downloading at a decent quality...and will commence editing over the weekend.
Thanks for all your help, peeps!
LB
Went round to Sixspeed's and tried his camera and firewire cable. To cut a long story short, I had inserted the cable incorrectly.....DUMBO!!!!
Had a big laugh...
Anyway, now downloading at a decent quality...and will commence editing over the weekend.
Thanks for all your help, peeps!
LB
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