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SP. wrote on 4/9/2024, 6:40 PM

@Dave-Wilkinson Do you mean a Windows Bluescreen error or a blue screen from your VHS player?

AAProds wrote on 4/9/2024, 9:23 PM

@Dave-Wilkinson

Dave, what version are you using?

Assuming it's not the Windows blue screen of death, some things to check:

-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).

-Check you've got the correct video input selected: Composite or S-Video (missing in the v7 manual), this screen:

-If you don't see any video on the next screen (after clicking Continue), try another tape. If still no video, do a check of your VCR: plug it into your TV (analogue inputs) and see if you get a picture.

 

 

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

Dave-Wilkinson wrote on 4/10/2024, 3:04 PM

Seems to be working now thanks