I re-iterate then:
when you can pick up a firewire card for
around a fiver why not see if it solves your issue?
Can you get your camera to capture on another pc with a regular firewire card?
Does someone's camera that they capture on a regular card with work with your canopus card? Have you tried the card in another PC?
From
Canopus DVStorm2 Product Review - GuyGraphics.com The DVstorm2 is the newest release of realtime editing hardware from Canopus. The DVStorm2 is capable of performing unlimited simultaneous realtime video filters, titles and graphics layers. This power and expandability is made possible by Canopus’s proprietary scalable video architecture. The original DVStorm was a pioneering piece of hardware. It was later updated to the DVStormSE and now it has become the DVStorm2. |
Sounds like this card is intended as a hardware editing solution? Definately trying to do something "clever", which sounds like it is broken. What I am recommending is doing it the "Normal" way. Just see if a normal firewire card will pull the data off the device. You shouldn't need this wizardry to capture from miniDV, just ordinary firewire should do.