Video Capture and conversion software advice needed

[jagdpanther]

IVe had a JVC GRdx28 EK camcorder for some years now and have been using the bundled software, which is Pixela ImageMixer 1.7, with mixed results

Just recently though (past 6 months) Ive been experiencing a lot of problems with it failing to recognise the camcorder and saying that there is nothing to capture from.

Apparently this is quite a widesread problem with this POS software and Ive finally had enough

What I would like to ask you chaps is this:

Do you know of any good, free video capturing software for a mindv camcorder that I could download??????

Thanks for any recommendations

[dern]

I just use windows movie maker bundled with xp... can't you use that for some reason?

[jagdpanther]

dern said:

I just use windows movie maker bundled with xp... can't you use that for some reason?

Id actually forgotten about that

I'll give it a shot now

[jagdpanther]

Ive got some kind of problem as one piece of software wont recognise it, Windows shuts the PC down...so something is off somewhere

[dern]

jagdpanther said:

Ive got some kind of problem as one piece of software wont recognise it, Windows shuts the PC down...so something is off somewhere

If you're connecting with firewire then check that xp hasn't configured the firewire port as a network connection. If it has then disable it. You may then have to reboot to get it to recognise the camera. This flummoxed me for half an hour after I disabled my firewire network connection.

If this is the case it may well be the reason why your current software doesn't recognise the camera.

Edited by dern on Tuesday 24th April 19:56

[jagdpanther]

dern said:

jagdpanther said:

Ive got some kind of problem as one piece of software wont recognise it, Windows shuts the PC down...so something is off somewhere

If you're connecting with firewire then check that xp hasn't configured the firewire port as a network connection. If it has then disable it. You may then have to reboot to get it to recognise the camera. This flummoxed me for half an hour after I disabled my firewire network connection.

If this is the case it may well be the reason why your current software doesn't recognise the camera.

Edited by dern on Tuesday 24th April 19:56

It really is confusing old boy, as this has only started happening over the past six months or so

[dern]

jagdpanther said:

It really is confusing old boy, as this has only started happening over the past six months or so

Odd. Check your network settings first as they may have been reset by an automatic update or something like that. It'll be really obvious when you open your network settings because there will be a firewire entry which will either be disabled or not (disabled being what you want).

Edited by dern on Tuesday 24th April 20:03

[jagdpanther]

right

Ive got rid of the old software which seems to have allowed other software to recognise the camcorder

I used windows movie maker, but the quality, although I upped it, is crap

If yourself or anyone else has some suggestions of decent, free (or torrented ) software I would be most greatfull

[ThePassenger]

Adobe Premier? I seem to recall it being the top dog on the PC a while back, not sure if that's still the case.
Obviously on the Mac you're looking at Final Cut Pro, it really does live up to its name.

Neither of which are cheap but are puka video editing systems.

For cheap n' cheerful try Cinerella it's an Open Source jobbie and I believe there should be a Windows version floating around, hopefully it'll talk to your camera natively.

[jagdpanther]

Ive heard good things about Adobe Premier but Im uncertain whether my PC will actually run it

I do have the editing software called Pinnacle 10 (I thikn) and it will not run that at all....not enough processing power

I'll go hunting in a moment

Thanks