Author Topic: Video Capture on your computer...MAYDAY! (Read 284 times)

Golfer · « **on:** December 16, 2005, 08:56:46 PM »

So I have myself a Sony Digital Handycam. It's a DCR-TRV525.

So I have myself the camera above with 8mm tapes loaded with stuff I'd like to put onto my computer.

So I have myself the stuff above and go to Best Buy and pick up a "Dazzle Digital Video Creator 85"

So I bring home what I listed above and load the software.

So I load the software and find I've got a problem.

So I take my problem and try to load up in Sony Vegas and get this message:

So I say...hmm.

So I unload the software and just go with the hardware.

So I find out the camera and adapter still aren't recognized.

So I wonder.

So I reload the software and use their "dumbed down" capture device called "AM Capture"

So I see video but no sound...it's a step in the right direction.

So I load/reload/load/reload the software several times only to be unsuccessful.

So I come to anyone for help who might have some ideas. I'm tapped out and ready to throw the computer out the window!!!!

Please help

rpm · « **Reply #1 on:** December 16, 2005, 10:14:25 PM »

You might try going to their website and loading the latest drivers. You might also try to capture with a different viewer like ACDSee and see if you have any success.

Dago · « **Reply #2 on:** December 16, 2005, 11:56:19 PM »

Are you using a firewire to connect your video camera to your computer?

Put your capture card (again firewire?) in the first or last slot on the motherboard. That is the only place a firewire card works as a rule, I just dont remember if that is the first slot or last, I think it is the first slot. Try both.

Golfer · « **Reply #3 on:** December 17, 2005, 01:03:42 AM »

No firewire. It's a USB device which has inputs for L Audio, R Audio and Video RCA inputs.

Plugged into the USB adapter.

Their support website is a joke and I couldn't locate any information after 2 hours of searching

Golfer · « **Reply #4 on:** December 17, 2005, 01:47:14 AM »

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Originally posted by rpm
You might try going to their website and loading the latest drivers. You might also try to capture with a different viewer like ACDSee and see if you have any success.

Whats ACDSee. I know the band??

bj229r · « **Reply #5 on:** December 17, 2005, 03:52:07 AM »

I've never heard anything good about Dazzle--when I went to do the very same scenario as you, I finally settled on a HP device---it's an external DVD burner/capture device--run video and both audios into it, pops up on screen to record to hard drive, or straight to DVD, works like a champ (USB 2.0)..was about $225, as I recall.

gatso · « **Reply #6 on:** December 17, 2005, 09:39:29 AM »

Why are you using the Dazzle thing at all, hasn't the camera got USB or Firewire output?

I'd junk everything you've already put on and go download Ulead VideoStudio trial version. Heck even MS Movie Maker (barf) was able to capture stuff from my camera without installing a single piece of software.

Gatso

Panasonic NV-GS400

Roscoroo · « **Reply #7 on:** December 17, 2005, 11:31:23 AM »

sony vegas has its own video capture setup .... you just need to configure it for your camera .

sometimes other video ,scanner,webcam or camera soft/hardware gets in the way though .

Boroda · « **Reply #8 on:** December 17, 2005, 12:26:57 PM »

1) A modern digital camera, I mean - if it was produced after 2000, should have a FireWire digital port.

2) To use it - you need to have a FireWire port in your computer. Good FireWire adapters for your PC cost less then $10, and they usually don't need any special drivers if you use Windows XP or 2000.

3) Using a device with analog input to capture videos from digital camera is a bad idea.

4) USB ports on most of the modern digital cameras are used for reading digital still photos from memory cards, not video from Mini-DV or Digital-8 tapes.