For months I have been capturing video from my HV20 via Firewire, editing and producing movies with Platinum 9b on my PC. Suddenly, Vegas tells me the Device (is) Un-available. In playing with the camera settings, I found that Vegas will recognize and load the camera when it is placed in Camera mode instead of Playback mode - it will even show the camera live image on the capture screen. But when the camera is returned to Playback, the device becomes unavailable. The PC recognizes camera connection/disconnection events audibly. I also found that I could capture video with the same connections using Premier Elements.
The only event of significance that happened between my last successful capture and now is that I installed a new wireless mouse. I have since uninstalled it but to no avail.
My only thought now is to re-install Vegas and hope for the best. But I thought I'd ask this forum first. (BTW while reading this forum I noted the recommendation that I should capture using HDVSplit. I will try that next, but am still interested in solving the problem.)
The following is an edit to my original post. I found that HDVSplit had the same problem as Vegas - it would recognize the camcorder only if it was in the Camera mode.
The only event of significance that happened between my last successful capture and now is that I installed a new wireless mouse. I have since uninstalled it but to no avail.
My only thought now is to re-install Vegas and hope for the best. But I thought I'd ask this forum first. (BTW while reading this forum I noted the recommendation that I should capture using HDVSplit. I will try that next, but am still interested in solving the problem.)
The following is an edit to my original post. I found that HDVSplit had the same problem as Vegas - it would recognize the camcorder only if it was in the Camera mode.