Interestingly (?) it is the legacy driver that is loaded.

1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy)

Driver Date 21/6/2006

Driver Version 6.1.7601.17514

I will see if I can find any other driver.

You might save yourself a heap of time if you look at that HDVSplit link, there is a Sony forum there, you may solve your issue and return to us, as I believe this is not a Powerdirector problem. Please post any results for us. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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Tape capture using 6 VCR, TBC-1000, Elite BVP4+, Sony D8 camcorder with TBC.
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Hi

I don't believe that it is a PowerDirector problem as such either but I know that a number of users have the same problems.

I will keep looking.

One other thing I have discovered this morning though is that when the camera is set to DV mode it is recognised in Device Manager as a FireWire device but when I switch it to HDV it changes to a Sound Video or Game Controller, i.e. no longer FireWire.

This must have something to do with it, but I have no idea what at this stage!

I will report back if I have a Eureka moment.

I, too, am having this issue. Funny thing is it comes and goes! I thought it was the iLink cable so I bought a new one. Tried it and it worked FIRST TIME! Then, this morning, I came down to upload a tape in HD and got that same message AGAIN! So, I don't think it is the cable. Based on the answers in this forum this is not a software problem because everyone else seems able to transfer HD from tape without issue. Wish someone could respond who had this problem, fixed it, and was able to figure out how!

Hi John

I was fairly sure that I had posted my workaround but it looks like I must have had a senior moment.

Basically I came to the conclusion that the issue was using the 4 wire mini firewire plug connected to a full size 6 wire one on my PC.

We have a second computer (HP touchscreen thingy) which has a mini firewire input and the camera connects to that without any problem.

So to get around it I capture the video to the second computer using HDVSplit and then transfer it to the editing computer across my network. Obviously it takes a bit longer but it works!

When I get time I will change the PC card for one with a mini input and see what happens.

Hope this helps.

I tried it again this morning, it failed with the same message, then, without rewinding, I pressed the record button again and it worked!