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12-30-2004, 08:23 PM
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I have to say that I am new to video capturing, I got my Sony DCR HC 40E yesterday, connected it with USB cable, captured quality is horrible specially through the provided Sony software that is nothing but a waste of space. I connected it now with a fire wire cable, the camera realizes that it is connected, light flashing and says DV in, but my software can not recognize that it is connected, I tried Windows movie maker and Adobe Premier, no luck. Can anybody help? :cry:
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12-31-2004, 02:17 PM
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Is the firewire port you are using built into the motherboard or graphics card of your PC? There have been some reported cases of firewire ports such as these not working 'properly' and people have had instant success by fitting a cheap PCI firewire card. No promises, just a thought.
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12-31-2004, 05:57 PM
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thanks millsy for your thought, it worked  .. the port I was using was on an external device connected to my PC  . Now I got a firewire PCI card and my videocam has been recognized through that card and works fine.
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12-31-2004, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by aelkady thanks millsy for your thought, it worked .. the port I was using was on an external device connected to my PC . Now I got a firewire PCI card and my videocam has been recognized through that card and works fine.
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01-01-2005, 12:41 AM
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Sorry to hijack the thread, but.......hhheeeellllppp....
Millsy, if you get a chance, could you take a look at my post in 'software problem' forum concerning poor capture....
Any chance my problem could be solved by a dedicated firewire card rather than the facility built into my mobo?
I know £25 ain't a lot of money, if I were to get a cheap pci card, but I don't want to buy a new card if it's gonna be a pointless exercise.
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01-04-2005, 02:10 PM
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I got a firewire card and a free lead all fitted for £15 in about an hour at a small local pc shop.
As far as i can see vid capture needs firewire if you want quality.
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