Will not record Video from Camcorder via FireWire

Dennis-Burton wrote on 8/5/2024, 12:22 PM

Running trial version of VS 2025 but it will not record or receive Video from my Camcorder via FireWire. It knows the camera is there as I can stop and start it from the on screen display, but no Video appears in the preview screen. I am running Windows 11 Pro and wonder if this is a conflict between FireWire and Win 11, or is it the fact that I am running the Trial Version?

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AAProds wrote on 8/5/2024, 9:53 PM

@Dennis-Burton

Welcome Dennis. Random thoughts:

-If using Windows 10 or 11, check that Windows has been given permission to use your camera and microphone: Windows Settings>Privacy & Security>Camera>turn on camera access and lower down the page, turn on “Let desktop apps access your camera”.Do the same for the microphone (click on Privacy and Security in the left margin to return to the main screen to access the Microphone)

-What is the model of your camcorder 9should be on the bottom)?

-Does this happen with all tapes?

-Could it be HDV verses DV? Both are on miniDV cassettes but are different formats so you'll need to use the correct Recording option in that stupid icon-driven Magix panel.

-Could you do a screenshot of the recording panel for us.

-Try WinDV or Scenalyzer (both standalone) to see if you get a picture there.

All my forum comments are based on or refer to my System 1.

My struggle is over! I built my (now) system 2 in 2011 when DV was king and MPEG 2 was just coming onto the scene and I needed a more powerful system to cope. Since then we've advanced to MP4 and to bigger and bigger resolutions. I was really suffering, not so much in editing (with proxies) but in encoding, which just took ages. A video, with Neat Video noise reduction applied, would encode at 12% of film speed. My new system 1 does the same job at 160% of film speed. Marvellous. I'm keeping my old system as a capture station for analogue video tapes and DV.

System 1

Windows 11 v23H2 severely modified by Openshell and ExplorerPatcher

Power supply: 850W Cooler Master (should have got modular)

CPU: Intel i7 13700K running at 3400mhz, cooled by a Kraken 2x140mm All In One liquid cooler.

RAM: 64gb (2x32gb sticks) G.Skill "Ripjaws" DDR4 3200Mhz

GPU 1: iGPU UHD 770

GPU 2: NVidia RTX 3060Ti Windforce 8gb

C drive: NVME 500gb

Various other SSD and HDDs.

Monitor: 27"/68cm Samsung, 2560 x 1440, 43 pixels/cm.

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

Magix Video Easy version 7.0.1.145

System 2

(Still in use for TV and videotape capture)

Windows 10 v22H2

CPU: i5-750 at 2670mhz with 12gb RAM

Onboard IEEE1394 (Firewire) port

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4770 (512mb) which is ignored by MEP

Hard drives: C Drive 256gb SSD, various other HDDs.

Monitor: Dell 22"/56cm, 1680x1050, 35 pixels/cm

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

VPX 12

Dennis-Burton wrote on 8/7/2024, 11:02 AM

Many thanks for the answers to my problem, as it happens I have solved it, don't ask me how, I'm not sure.

I was trying to get it to update the IEEE Drivers ( as I had many times over the last ten days) when, when trying to install one, for some reason the entry in Device Manager was moved down into Other Devices. On trying to update the Driver from there it accepted and installed the 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy) Driver and it worked.

Thanks again for your help.

Dennis

 

AAProds wrote on 8/8/2024, 8:05 AM

@Dennis-Burton

Great stuff Dennis, thanks for the feedback.

All my forum comments are based on or refer to my System 1.

My struggle is over! I built my (now) system 2 in 2011 when DV was king and MPEG 2 was just coming onto the scene and I needed a more powerful system to cope. Since then we've advanced to MP4 and to bigger and bigger resolutions. I was really suffering, not so much in editing (with proxies) but in encoding, which just took ages. A video, with Neat Video noise reduction applied, would encode at 12% of film speed. My new system 1 does the same job at 160% of film speed. Marvellous. I'm keeping my old system as a capture station for analogue video tapes and DV.

System 1

Windows 11 v23H2 severely modified by Openshell and ExplorerPatcher

Power supply: 850W Cooler Master (should have got modular)

CPU: Intel i7 13700K running at 3400mhz, cooled by a Kraken 2x140mm All In One liquid cooler.

RAM: 64gb (2x32gb sticks) G.Skill "Ripjaws" DDR4 3200Mhz

GPU 1: iGPU UHD 770

GPU 2: NVidia RTX 3060Ti Windforce 8gb

C drive: NVME 500gb

Various other SSD and HDDs.

Monitor: 27"/68cm Samsung, 2560 x 1440, 43 pixels/cm.

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

Magix Video Easy version 7.0.1.145

System 2

(Still in use for TV and videotape capture)

Windows 10 v22H2

CPU: i5-750 at 2670mhz with 12gb RAM

Onboard IEEE1394 (Firewire) port

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4770 (512mb) which is ignored by MEP

Hard drives: C Drive 256gb SSD, various other HDDs.

Monitor: Dell 22"/56cm, 1680x1050, 35 pixels/cm

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

VPX 12