DV cam and PC no longer talking

[Cuz]

Hi

My Canon DV MV550i was working fine with my XP system until recently when I
tried to edit a piece of video and found that the camera was not even
detected. I have heard that there are issues with SP3 and Firewire - does
anyone know anything about this, or has anyone else experienced this problem?

The camera works, the cables work, and I managed to download the footage
directly to a DVD-R and burn to a DVD, but I really need to be able to edit
the video clips, which I have always been able to do (in Pinnacle) until this
happened.

Any help appreciated.

 

[Andrew E.]

Windows media encoder 9 series & its utilities lets you
edit,encode,convert,etc,
also,xp movie-maker does also.

 

[Cuz]

Hi

Thanks for your response, but the problem is not with the editing software,
but with the fact that my PC no longer detects the camera through Firewire
and I am unable to transfer the video to the PC at all.

regards

 

[Tim]

mine was ok untill i had to format my pc, its now on xp service pack 3, i
dont know whats wrong but my camera is not being detected through my fire
wire card it apears that theres no driver in device manager when i try the
add new hardware it wont find a driver either

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Did you try turning off the PC, opening the case and physically removing the
1394 (firewire) card.... turning on the PC, make sure everything else is
working, turn it off again...... reinsert the firewire card, turn on the
PC... does it recognize it now and install as new hardware. If not, the
card has died, buy a new one.

 

[M.I.5¾]

Did you try turning off the PC, opening the case and physically removing
the 1394 (firewire) card.... turning on the PC, make sure everything else
is working, turn it off again...... reinsert the firewire card, turn on
the PC... does it recognize it now and install as new hardware. If not,
the card has died, buy a new one.

The PC will not reinstall the firewire card as new hardware unless it is
re-installed into a physically different slot.

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