My Panasonic PV-DV601 does the same thing. I was never able to capture by passing through the analog video-in to the firewire port on my camera. It would work for a second and then stop, just like you’re describing. The next best thing would be to put a tape in the camera and record it to DV tape, then capture the tape. There will be no loss in quality doing it this way; it just takes twice as long.

If someone who actually owns the same camera and has done this says that it should work, then you should ask them how they did it. If someone just generically told you that if your camera has a video-in then you should be able to capture with it, then they are only partly right. Not all cameras with a video-in will pass that through to the firewire port in real-time for capture.

~jr

Under preferneces in the Sofo Video Capture app disable "Enable DV device control" (or something like that). That should do the trick.

Just control the camera from the camera and not the Sofo software buttons (i.e. fastforward, reverse ...).

Hope that helps,

-Jason

Hello Jason (jsteehl), thanks a lot, it worked, now I can capture, so Johnny Roy you can follow (Jsteehl's) instuction, it's very easy and simple.
Once agian thank you Jason.

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I'll have to try that. Come to think of it, I don't remember disabling the DV control so maybe that was it. Thanks! ;-)

~jr