Camcorder not detecting...

Rollydog wrote on 5/6/2004, 1:31 PM

Hi, I'm really new to all of this stuff and am probably doing something wrong. I bought a dv953 panasonic, am using Vegas 4.0, and have a Belkin firewire card. I hooked it up but when I go to capture, nothing happens. Could anyone tell me how to fix this problem.

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Cheno wrote on 5/6/2004, 1:45 PM

Make sure under Options - Preferences - Video Device that you have OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 selected.

Rollydog wrote on 5/6/2004, 1:59 PM

No good...
All it says is:

This device supports recompression
Hot pluggable device
Device unavailable

ghanks wrote on 5/6/2004, 8:11 PM

I have had a couple of issues with that camcorder being detected on my system. Make sure it is connected to your firewire when you first boot the computer. Open Vegas and turn the camera on, then go into the capture program. I have found these things help.

Hunter wrote on 5/6/2004, 8:43 PM

1 What version of windows?
2 With out starting capture program plug in cam, does windows see it?
3 Is the camera new or used?
4 Might have bad cable.

Hunter

Caruso wrote on 5/7/2004, 12:09 AM

Ditto the bad cable advice. My cam connection started giving me problems. Since I'm the only who ever handles my stuff, I placed "bad cable" at the bottom of my list of possible culprits.

But, cable it was. Bought a new one, problem gone.

On my system, the cam would not be recognized when I opened vidcap. V5 would hang, then lock up my 'puter requireing a reboot to recover.

If I established a connection, it would be broken if I touched the cam during capture or print-to-tape.

New cable solved all of that.

If your cable is already new (not to say a new one might not be bad), perhaps there are other issues.

Caruso