Mike Temporale
10-22-2003, 02:43 PM
I'm looking for some help getting my DV Camcorder working correctly on my PC and with Pinnacle Studio 8.
I am having problems capturing video from my camcorder. I was finally able to get the 2 devices to see each other after downloading the latest drivers from Panasonic. However, Windows Movie Maker, and Pinnacle Studio 8 don’t see the camcorder as a capture device. Do these applications only work with FireWire? Or is there something wrong with my setup? Should I buy a FireWire cable for my camcorder?
I then tried to use the software that came with the camcorder to capture video. This seems to work, but is it ever slow. And it seems to jump around a lot. For instance, there is a clip about 60 seconds long. When I try and capture it, about a third of the way through it starts to jump around. Eventually it ends up at the start of the clip and then slowly starts to transfer or “capturing” as the progress window states. I have yet to let this finish because if it’s any indication of the length of time it will take then I’m going to go nuts try to capture the 180 minutes of video I have.
For the record, I am using a Panasonic PV-DV402 digital video camcorder, USB 2.0 (the cable that came with the camcorder), on a P4 2.0 with 1 Gig RAM, total hard drive space of 200+ Gig (100 Gig free on my multi-media drive), a nVidia GeForce 2 with 64 Meg RAM, and there is also a ATI TV Wonder (video capture) card. For software, I'm using Pinnacle Studio 8, Windows XP Pro (all the latest service patches). I also own a copy of Faster Smarter Digital video. I am currently on chapter 1 (started reading it last night ;) ).
I am embarrassed to admit that I have owned the book since Feb this year, and the camera and software since mid to late last year. I had big hopes... it just took a little while to get the time to do them! :oops:
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am having problems capturing video from my camcorder. I was finally able to get the 2 devices to see each other after downloading the latest drivers from Panasonic. However, Windows Movie Maker, and Pinnacle Studio 8 don’t see the camcorder as a capture device. Do these applications only work with FireWire? Or is there something wrong with my setup? Should I buy a FireWire cable for my camcorder?
I then tried to use the software that came with the camcorder to capture video. This seems to work, but is it ever slow. And it seems to jump around a lot. For instance, there is a clip about 60 seconds long. When I try and capture it, about a third of the way through it starts to jump around. Eventually it ends up at the start of the clip and then slowly starts to transfer or “capturing” as the progress window states. I have yet to let this finish because if it’s any indication of the length of time it will take then I’m going to go nuts try to capture the 180 minutes of video I have.
For the record, I am using a Panasonic PV-DV402 digital video camcorder, USB 2.0 (the cable that came with the camcorder), on a P4 2.0 with 1 Gig RAM, total hard drive space of 200+ Gig (100 Gig free on my multi-media drive), a nVidia GeForce 2 with 64 Meg RAM, and there is also a ATI TV Wonder (video capture) card. For software, I'm using Pinnacle Studio 8, Windows XP Pro (all the latest service patches). I also own a copy of Faster Smarter Digital video. I am currently on chapter 1 (started reading it last night ;) ).
I am embarrassed to admit that I have owned the book since Feb this year, and the camera and software since mid to late last year. I had big hopes... it just took a little while to get the time to do them! :oops:
Any help would be greatly appreciated.