I have had my sony DV camcorder connected to the firewire
card on my PC. My PC seemed to be able to recognized the
the camcorder. After opening the movie maker 2.0 program,
I was able to initiate the video-capturing process. I
could hear the sound of the camcorder rewinding to start
of the tape and saw a message on the screen for something
like "video capturing in progress,etc". I seems that the
program, movie maker 2.0, was trying to do something
because I could see that the line of "size of file" kept
blinking. But the value of the file size stayed at 0K
(zero kilobyte). On the line for showing the length of
video time that have been transferred, it stayed at
00:00:00. I let the program stay on like this for about
half an hour. There were no change or jump in file size
and video time. I assumed that the program was not able
to capture anything from the mini DV tape. Eventually I
cancel the capturing manually. Did I do anything wrong? I
chose the option of capturing the whole tape instead of
part of the tape. I also chose the option of "best
quality for viewing on PC (Recommended)" I have unchecked
the options of viewing video on PC while capturing and
capture as clips. I have about 30G free harddrive space,
384 mb ram and 1.8 MHz pentium IV cpu. Do I need
additional hardware or software to make it works
I appreciate any help and suggestions. Thanks very much

Hi Steven,

I had exactly the same problem with video-capturing when I
tried this for the first time yesterday at my brand new
Windows PC.

Microsoft gives some comment about "IEEE 1394 Trouble
Shooting" at their support pages for known problems at the
W2000 platform. Search for firewire or "233307".
A possible cause might be the power management system of
the video camera itself.

I'll do some more tests later this week at other PC's
(Win2000 & WinXP) and with other videocams. I'll keep you
informed.

With regards,
Eric

>-----Original Message-----
>I have had my sony DV camcorder connected to the firewire
>card on my PC. My PC seemed to be able to recognized the
>the camcorder. After opening the movie maker 2.0 program,
>I was able to initiate the video-capturing process. I
>could hear the sound of the camcorder rewinding to start
>of the tape and saw a message on the screen for something
>like "video capturing in progress,etc". I seems that the
>program, movie maker 2.0, was trying to do something
>because I could see that the line of "size of file" kept
>blinking. But the value of the file size stayed at 0K
>(zero kilobyte). On the line for showing the length of
>video time that have been transferred, it stayed at
>00:00:00. I let the program stay on like this for about
>half an hour. There were no change or jump in file size
>and video time. I assumed that the program was not able
>to capture anything from the mini DV tape. Eventually I
>cancel the capturing manually. Did I do anything wrong? I
>chose the option of capturing the whole tape instead of
>part of the tape. I also chose the option of "best
>quality for viewing on PC (Recommended)" I have unchecked
>the options of viewing video on PC while capturing and
>capture as clips. I have about 30G free harddrive space,
>384 mb ram and 1.8 MHz pentium IV cpu. Do I need
>additional hardware or software to make it works
>I appreciate any help and suggestions. Thanks very much
>.
>