10-22-2003, 02:43 PM
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Any digital video enthusiasts willing to lend a hand?
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!  ops:
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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