XP2 MM2 hogging the IEEE1394 and my Sony cam, Ulead VS cannot capt

Hi
I have used Ulead Video studio 8 successfully on my Win2k laptop. It can
capture nicely on the firewire.
Today I bought a new firewire card for my desktop and it is XP with SP2, and
of course the cursed Movie Maker 2 installed.
The Ulead keeps complaining Video Capture Plug-in is in use or not installed
properly.
Using MM2 I can capture the video from my Sony Cam (PC107) but the quality
sucks compared to Ulead capture.
So... gentlemen, start writing me your views please?
Thanks
HAT

I'm not a gentleman but....

If you capture in DV-AVI using MovieMaker2 it should give you exactly the
same resolution as capturing in DV-AVI format in uLead Video. Obviously if
you have the settings at WMV, then the resolution is going to be much poorer
(but the file size will be correspondingly smaller).
--
Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"HAT" <HAT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
> I have used Ulead Video studio 8 successfully on my Win2k laptop. It can
> capture nicely on the firewire.
> Today I bought a new firewire card for my desktop and it is XP with SP2,
> and
> of course the cursed Movie Maker 2 installed.
> The Ulead keeps complaining Video Capture Plug-in is in use or not
> installed
> properly.
> Using MM2 I can capture the video from my Sony Cam (PC107) but the quality
> sucks compared to Ulead capture.
> So... gentlemen, start writing me your views please?
> Thanks
> HAT
>