Hi

I've installed Pinnacle 9 as an editing suite but when I try and record from
my camcorder I get an error message telling me that the program is trying to
record from a 1394 port but no camera appears to be connected. Im fairly
certain that Pinnacle is loaded correctly and the Firewire lead is ok, the
device manager teels me that the card is being recognised but I still can't
get anything to happen, Thought it might be that Driver so have tried to
load a new Driver for the Corder but still no success. I'm running XP Home
on SP 2 - don't know if that's got anyhting to do with it but I'm really at
a loss - can anyone help(please!!)
Thks Alan


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In message , Alan Wright
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I've installed Pinnacle 9 as an editing suite but when I try and record
from my camcorder I get an error message telling me that the program is
trying to record from a 1394 port but no camera appears to be
connected. Im fairly certain that Pinnacle is loaded correctly and the
Firewire lead is ok, the device manager teels me that the card is being
recognised but I still can't get anything to happen, Thought it might
be that Driver so have tried to load a new Driver for the Corder but
still no success. I'm running XP Home on SP 2 - don't know if that's
got anyhting to do with it but I'm really at
a loss - can anyone help(please!!)

Have you set the camcorder power switch to PLAYER before switching
Pinnacle on?
--
Tony Morgan
http://www.camcord.info

"Alan Wright" wrote in message
. ..
Hi

I've installed Pinnacle 9 as an editing suite but when I try and record
from
my camcorder I get an error message telling me that the program is trying
to
record from a 1394 port but no camera appears to be connected. Im fairly
certain that Pinnacle is loaded correctly and the Firewire lead is ok, the
device manager teels me that the card is being recognised but I still
can't
get anything to happen, Thought it might be that Driver so have tried to
load a new Driver for the Corder but still no success. I'm running XP
Home
on SP 2 - don't know if that's got anyhting to do with it but I'm really
at
a loss - can anyone help(please!!)
Thks Alan

as soon as you connect the camera with the firewire cable you should get a
bubble in windows telling you it's found a new 'something'. If you don't get
that, either the cable is faulty or the camera is faulty. One solution is to
try a different device, maybe someone elses camera, or any other firewire
device. If a different device shows up as found by your computer, then it's
the camera end that's the problem.
Also look in the Control Panel/Scanners and Cameras when you've got the
camera connected. It should show up there.

Tony thks
Think it might be the camcorder but I'm not sure if I have the Drivers
installed. Any idea where I can download them from - My PC doesn't
recognise the Corder at all
Alan


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"Alan Wright" wrote in message
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Tony thks
Think it might be the camcorder but I'm not sure if I have the Drivers
installed. Any idea where I can download them from - My PC doesn't
recognise the Corder at all

if your PC recognises the firewire port in the device manager you don't need
any drivers for your camcorder. You can plug almost any firewire device into
your firewire port and the PC won't need drivers. As soon as you plug the
camera in your PC should recognise it, but it all comes back to making sure
your PC has the firewire hardware properly installed.
And you must get hold on a different camera and do a comparison test
otherweise you're gonna be fumbling around in the dark for days.