HDV firewire settings ...I think

kicsrick wrote on 5/11/2010, 2:29 PM
I used Vegas for years and mostly happy with it using it at work and home with separate licenses of course. So the IT geeks load Vegas 8 on my office machine. But it won't capture m2t off a Canon HV-10. Hmmm.. never had that problem before. Something must not be selected. Well I've looked and don't see it. control panes sees the Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller pronouncing it healthy, Capture device preference has IEEE 1394/MPEG2-TS Device selected but the screen says Device Not Available. IT weenies haven't a clue. I'm told Canon has no drivers for this camera. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?

tanks,

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Tom Pauncz wrote on 5/11/2010, 5:00 PM
If you want to capture HDV, you need to select HDV/SDI. It's a built-in part of Vegas as opposed to Vidcap, an external app.

Also make sure your camera is in VCR mode and not camera mode.
Tom
kicsrick wrote on 5/12/2010, 8:45 AM
good suggestions but nope that's not it. This may not be a Vegas problem but the PC itself. I captured hundreds(?) well a lot of video from the HV10. I use it as my playback deck. I shoot hords of weddings, promotionals, concerts n stuff almost all in HDV using a XH-A1. I have three PCs at home and two at my job site where there are no troubles. The only one with issues is one on my desk.. Vegas 8 was loaded by my well intentioned geek IT guys. I had to add a firewire card. The machine responds when I turn the camera offf and on but Vegas continously says the device is off line. I've made pretty much every mistake a person can make with this or that setting. One way or another I work through them. But this one puzzles me.

willqen wrote on 5/12/2010, 9:14 AM
Hello, I ran into a similar problem as you have quite a while back. Don't know if it will help you, but it's worth a try.

I use a Canopus AVC 300 via firewire to bring in SD, and a Sony HVR-M25U deck via firewire for HDV. Of course I also have a card reader for AVCHD, but it acts differently.

What I'm getting at is, if I am loading video thru firewire from either source (AVC300 or HVR-25U) either Vidcap or the internal HDV capture app was insisting that I reset or turn on my capture device, when it was already on, just as in your situation.

I discovered my solution on the Grass Valley (Canopus) web site. It was simply that any firewire capture device has to be powered up before the computer is powered up, and the reverse is also required. When powering down, first the computer is shut off, then the firewire capture device.

Believe it or not, this worked for me. When I need to capture video from either source (AVC 300 or HVR-25U) I power it up first, then the computer (restart won't work, must be from computer off, to power up). The firewire device then is available within Vidcap or the internal HDV - SDI App.

Don't really know why this works it just does.I hope it works for you

Will
kicsrick wrote on 5/12/2010, 11:23 AM
Yeah, believe it or not I tried that. I'm not totally SOL because I can capture from another nearby machine and move on. I just don't get this. You know those little two note sounds that indicate you connected a new device in windows? like a sort of ta dum going up scale, dum ta going down scale. Under the current conditions I get a three note indicating on as ta ta ta. off is dum ta as expected. Does this mean anything? Don't know but its different isn't it. I'm not sophistogated enough to describe it so lets invent some sounds. It makes me think the problem is the card itself. So I'm going to pursue that for a while.