Vista - video capture for Canon Optura 40 on Vista

When I try to capture with Windows Movie Maker or with my Adobe Premiere
software, the computer doesn't recognize my firewire port as having any input
device. The port shows as up to date and no further drivers needed when I
check Bus in Device Mgr. I have the camera turned on, and on VCR mode. Is
there another way around this? I am finding that this same problem is
happening with lots of cameras. i am sure it is a bug, but how do we get
around it? Is there a way to manually make the computer recognize a port
when something is plugged in?

Does your cam show up as being connected when you first connect it to the
pc?
If not try connecting it and turning it on and then boot up the pc.
Do other firewire items work on the port? Device manager only tells you it
should work in theory, not actually in practise.

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"Taewa" <Taewa@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for your help, but I still can't get it to work. The computer doesn't
recognize it when I first plug it in, and I tried to plug it in before
booting the computer, but that didn't work either. I have tried my iPod's
firewire on the computer, and the computer recognizes it most of the time
(although still a bit buggy). Is there a way to have the firewire slot force
read something? like a "run" command???

Thanks.



"Graham Hughes" wrote:

The fact you have trouble with your ipod seems to indicate a problem with
either the cable or the firewire port on the pc, physically rather than
software. I'd try a good quality cable first to see if that helps, otheriwse
test your equipemnt on another pc adn see how they work together. Maybe a
pci firewire card replacement will help if the firewire port is dodgy.

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"Taewa" <Taewa@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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