I have been trying to CAPTURE (or IMPORT) my old DV tapes from a borrowed Panasonic NV DV2000 Player. The camcorder itself has gone.

Using a Firewire cable and putting PD9 into the CAPTURE mode it recognises that a DV unit is attached but won't record the images. I can see that hitting the START button in PD9 sets the tape going but after the message saying it is scanning the tape, it asks me to rewind the tape to the start - I do that but the same thing keeps happening.

On Page 25 of the PD9 Guide it suggests that I could think of the dv player (they talk of it as a camcorder) as another hard-drive -although they do refer to the connection as USB and I only have FireWire

I did originally use the Panasonic dv camcorder directly into the dv in on my original laptop on PD8, and even took images from a very old Hi8 camera - directly thro' the dv camcorder to PD8.

I can of course record the tapes to DVD on my Sony DVD Recorder via the dv Firewire cable and then import the DVD to PD9 but I hoped that I could avoid that extra step.

Any advice would be appreciated.

GR.

Dell 546 6gb RAM. GeForce 220 1gb, Firewire / HDMI Card