Exporting to tape (i know its a boring problem)

[Chris Mawn]

Ok

I have a Texas Instrements OHCI compliant firewire
IEEE1394 PCMCIA card in a NEC Versa E400 laptop. 17GB
spare disk, 256MB ram, P4m 1.8Ghz
Runnng Windows XP Home (SP1.5)

My Camera is a Sony DCR-TRV10E Pal camera (purchased in
Aus)Has built in DV IN/OUT.

I am able to capture footage but are unable to export to
DV. In goes through the motions is if it is working
except the preview on the LCD or Viewfinder is blue. The
red recording dot comes up on screen and the counter runs.

The camera is in VCR mode - so thats right.

The card, camera and cable work as i have tested them on
another laptop - and all is fine with export to tape
working 100%. The laptop i tested on was similar spec
except running Windows XP Prof. I have also tried
recording to another Sony Digicam (different model) on my
laptop and that has the same problem.

So it's either my Laptop hardware or my O/S.

I have tested the export with Studio 8, WMMII, and
Director. So i can assume its not the editing s/wre.

I am totally confused.

(Also did a clean install of my o/s and laptop recently
too - however i did not use the camera before then so im
not sure if it "used to work"

Thanks
Chris

 

[Guest]

Hi Chris,

Try saving your movie to a DV-AVI file on your hard
drive, and then use the WinDV utility (link on my
Camcorders... General page) to copy the file to the
camcorder.

That will help you determine where the issue lies.

PapaJohn

 

[Chris Mawn]

Thanks PapaJohn

Still no luck with WinDV.

My HD was fragmanted - so i defraged also, still no
luck :-(

I have no idea what else to try...any more ideas?

I really appreciate your help on this

Thanks
Chris

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Seems like you are zeroing in on your firewire card. Try a really short file
transfer - maybe a 10 second clip.

PapaJohn

 

[Brendan Cuffe]

Interestingly, I have just bought a Sony DCR-TRV33 in the UK and have the
same problem. I used the firewire connection on my laptop (centrino 1.5GHz,
Win XP Pro), downloaded amd edited my movie using moviemaker 2 and then just
got a blue screen with the occasional 1 second burst of sound and picture
when I tried to export the edited movie back to the camera.

However I tried it on my desktop, AMD 1800, XP Home, and moviemaker 2 and
everything worked fine. The only obvious difference I can see between the
laptop and desktop is that the laptop has a 4 pin firewire connection and XP
Pro and the desktop has a six pin firewire connection and XP home. I tried
phoning Sony in the UK, but they were unable to suggest anything positive
other than 4 pin or 6 pin, it shouldn't matter.

Interesting enough I saw a similar posting on
Microsoft.public.windowsxp.video and he also had a Sony camera.

Brendan
(Reply to group)

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

The extra 2 pins are just for power. If a firewire unit doesn't have it's
own power source, it needs to be powered by the computer. But for camcorders
and laptops which have their own power, the extra 2 pins don't come into
play.

PapaJohn

 

[Brendan Cuffe]

Could it be a cable fault even though MM2 captures OK? (It was a relatively
cheap 4 pin/ 4pin fire wire cable I bought)

Brendan