No Capture Driver

[ineverwonanoscar]

I just bought Video Studio 9 over the net, downloaded it, opened the program, plugged in my new Sony HDV HVRZIU 1080i digital video recorder and got this message: "Either No Video capture driver is installed in this system or no device is connected."

What's the problem? Where do I get this mysterious driver?

[Ron P.]

Hi, welcome to the forums..

Did you download the free HDV plug-in? You can get it here:
http://www.ulead.com/vs/extra.htm


Regards

Ron P.

[harperv]

i use a sony handy came and video studio 9 will not recognise it either. i just download my videos onto the hard drive and import from there(dragging and dropping into the library works well) or just import them directly from the dvd from the camera.
when i clicked on that link i got nothing.
my system says i have sony usb driver 2 but nothing i can do will let me download without using the sony software or as i said just copying straight from the dvd.
it doesnt really matter as the videos i am creating are great quality when put onto a dvd and played on either of my tvs.

[Ken Berry]

Harperv -- you sound as though you have a Sony mini-DVD camera, which might be generically called by the usual Sony title for just about all its cameras, a Handycam. But yours is probably quite different from the original poster's brand new High Definition Sony camera -- at least in terms of what is needed to download the video from his camera to the computer (i.e. the HDV plug-in. Incidentally, the link you say leads nowhere in fact, in my case at least, led to the Ulead web page with all the various Ulead downloads, including the HDV one.)

In your case, moreover, it sounds as though you have been trying to capture using the USB 2.0 port on the camera (??) and the cable that no doubt was (as usual) supplied with it. But in the case of mini-DVD cameras such as yours, you don't use the USB cable except to download still photos taken with the camera in digital still mode, or else as relatively low quality streaming web video.

In fact, given that your camera uses a mini DVD disc (rather than, like most of us, a mini DV cassette, which we capture using Firewire, not USB 2.0), you have the option of either using the (usually awful) bundled Sony proprietary software, or else simply putting the mini-DVD disc into a DVD drive in your computer (as you have obviously found) or copying the contents of the mini-DVD to your computer, and in either case, using the VS9 command to 'Insert DVD/ DVD-VR' into your timeline. Or if that doesn't work, simply renaming the copied VOB files with an .mpg extension and inserting them that way.

[Ron P.]

When I posted above, I had noticed that Ulead's website was running like molasses on a subzero day... So it is not surprising that some may not even get the website. But the link is good...

Ron P.

[harperv]

thanks for your helpful reply. yes i do just download the files onto my hard drive or just import them into video studio directly.
Iam learning as i go along.

[tyamada]

ineverwonanoscar:

You haven't listed what operating system you are using.
You have to have Windows XP with Service Pack 2 to get your computer to load the proper drivers for your camera.

Then you have to load the HDV plugin for VS9.

After all that you should be able to use your camera.