Hi Tom, It is confusing isn't it.

To capture from your DV camcorder via IEEE card, you must select to use the "capture from DV" icon = the first one on the left. If you select that do you have that op0tion? Maske sure your camcorder is plugged in and on but paused. .
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The screenshot show that the firewire connections are not active. There are many things that can cause this. Some brands of camcorder will not have an active ieee port if used on battery power. It must be connected to the power adapter. The chipset in the firewire adapter is important. Some works better than others. Try this:

1. Connect the ieee cable to the camcorder and pc. Power on the camcorder in the vcr mode. You should see DV in or DV out on the viewfinder display depending on how you set the menu in the camcorder. You may have to enable those functions in the camcorder.


2. After you correctly set the camcorder then the DV capture in PD14 will show the lighted DV camcorder button on the top left of the screen in which you can click to enable it.


3. If the above did not work then you need to determine the ieee chipset which may show in device manager. One fast way to get it going is to leave everything as is all connected and powered up and then reboot the computer.


4. Open PD14 and check to see if the firewire is active.

If you still can’t get it going then review how you connected everthing. The camcorder connector could be damaged and need repair. See this recent post: http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/50554.page for help.

Let us know how it turns out.

Quote Hi Tom, It is confusing isn't it.

To capture from your DV camcorder via IEEE card, you must select to use the "capture from DV" icon = the first one on the left. If you select that do you have that op0tion? Maske sure your camcorder is plugged in and on but paused.

Thanks very much. What you told me works. I don't know why, but I had not seen the icon in the top left side of the screen. Running fine now.

Tom Wright
agss241
San Angelo, Texas

Quote The screenshot show that the firewire connections are not active. There are many things that can cause this. Some brands of camcorder will not have an active ieee port if used on battery power. It must be connected to the power adapter. The chipset in the firewire adapter is important. Some works better than others. Try this:

1. Connect the ieee cable to the camcorder and pc. Power on the camcorder in the vcr mode. You should see DV in or DV out on the viewfinder display depending on how you set the menu in the camcorder. You may have to enable those functions in the camcorder.


2. After you correctly set the camcorder then the DV capture in PD14 will show the lighted DV camcorder button on the top left of the screen in which you can click to enable it.


3. If the above did not work then you need to determine the ieee chipset which may show in device manager. One fast way to get it going is to leave everything as is all connected and powered up and then reboot the computer.


4. Open PD14 and check to see if the firewire is active.

If you still can’t get it going then review how you connected everthing. The camcorder connector could be damaged and need repair. See this recent post: http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/50554.page for help.

Let us know how it turns out.

Thanks very much for the advice. I think the firewire board may not have been working properly before even though Device Manager said it was.
At any rate, I have it working OK now.

Tom Wright
agss241
San Angelo, Texas