Digital Camcorder/ Computer Connection Problems
 

Next problem! Can anyone help with the (non) connection of my Sony digital camcorder, please? Firstly, when I connected it to the computer (Win 2000) by Firewire, using Pinnacle Studio 8, it told me that initialisation had failed. It’s not showing on the Imaging Devices, in the Device Manager, either.

More significantly, when I first connected, in the Device Manager, in the IEEE1394 Bus host controllers tab- (Firewire) it read “NEC OHCI Compliant IEEE1394 Compliant Host Controller”, with a yellow exclamation mark. So, I uninstalled it, and then tried using the associated “scan for hardware changes” tab. The computer promptly shut down.

On rebooting, the yellow exclamation mark had gone away. Unfortunately, on hooking up the camcorder again, it still wouldn’t connect, and the whole process started again.

The weird thing is that I did manage to connect the camcorder a few months ago, just after I bought the Firewire card.

Any thoughts or suggestions, anybody? Bloody Computers!!

Are you trying to get stills from the memory stick, or video from the tape?

Video from the tape.

Have a look at the pinnacle support faq here it takes you through logical steps, it sounds like the ieee1394 drivers may be corrupt, hope it helps.

Did you have play pressed? Last time I tried this (not with a Sony) the camera was not detected until I presses play. I could then control the camer via the firewire link.

Thanks for that. I'll try pressing "Play", but I don't think that that's the problem- it seems to be more likely to be the Firewire card.

As I mentioned, when I pressed the "Scan for hardware changes" button, my computer immediately conked out! I'm going to try sticking the Firewire card into another PCI slot.

As I mentioned, I'm running Win 2000. I can't remember the card came with a driver CD, or whether, (I think), Win 2000 has drivers installed already. Anyone know?