No Capture Driver on VS7

Sivik · Post by **Sivik** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:16 am

hey i just installed video studio 7 on my computer and it says that there is no capture driver, What is with that??
is there a website i can download one or somthing??

i have windows xp and using a panasonic video camera if that helps

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:03 pm

You need to connect your camcorder by way of an IEEE1394 cable known as firewire / i-Link.
The USB cable that was supplied with your camcorder is useless and the veterans of this forum have never understood why the camcorder manufacturers even bother to supply that cable.

Very cheap and easy to fit buy something called a "Video Editing Kit"
(At PC World in the UK approx £15 (GBP))
The kit contains an IEEE1394 card that fits your motherboard plus the cable that connects you camcorder to it. You will also find a CD but you don't need it and can put it away somewhere.

Once connected by firewire you will find that the computer will now control your camcorder, play, fast forward, rewind etc.

Steve J

Sivik · Post by **Sivik** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:47 pm

oh i forgot to say that i do have it hooked up using a firewire. but still says no video capture driver

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:02 pm

Firstly check to see if the computer knows you have a camcorder.
XP has Windows Movie Maker
"C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\moviemk.exe"
See if this detects your camcorder.

If yes, turn off the camcorder. Open VideoStudio. Go to the capture tab.
Turn ON the camcorder. You should get a message to the effect a new device has been detected do you want to use it?

If no. Could be a problem with the firewire lead.
Do you have access to another computer that you could connect the camcorder to, if so this will help eliminate the lead (or even the camcorder itself) as a cause.

We will have to tackle this one a step at a time.

Steve J

Sivik · Post by **Sivik** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:47 am

hey, yea i tryed with movie maker but no go. my firewire card didnt come with a driver for xp, would i need one.

i used to use my camera on my computer with no problems on vs7 but i had to reboot my computer and now im trying to reinstall everything and now it doesnt.

also when i turn my camera on when pluged in to the firewire my computer doesnt pop up saying that there is somthing hooked up like it does using a usb

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:23 pm

Windows XP doesnt need a driver for firewire its built into the system.
Sounds like a faulty lead, or if you have access to another computer you could plug it into that one to try and see it gets detected.
This is going to be a process of elimination.

Steve J

Sivik · Post by **Sivik** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 5:22 am

nah i dont have another computer to use it on, the lead was working fine last time it worked. shouldnt be the lead

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 11:59 am

Sivik wrote:hey, yea i tryed with movie maker but no go. my firewire card didnt come with a driver for xp, would i need one.

i used to use my camera on my computer with no problems on vs7 but i had to reboot my computer and now im trying to reinstall everything and now it doesnt.

also when i turn my camera on when pluged in to the firewire my computer doesnt pop up saying that there is somthing hooked up like it does using a usb

Hi Sivik,

What you stated is certainly as sjj pointed out, appearing to be a faulty lead. Do you have a firewire card, or is the firewire port built in? Since you obviously had a problem where you needed to do a complete re-install (and I'm taking that as even re-install your operating system), then maybe your firewire card hasn't been installed properly. To remedy that, you would need to either go to Control Panel>Add Hardware, and use the wizard to see if it recognizes your firewire card, or simply shutdown your machine. Then open the case (make sure the power cord is unplugged), then remove the firewire card. Close it up, plug it in, restart. When it's fully booted, then shut it down again. This time replace the firewire card. Then reboot. Windows should now see that there is new hardware, and install the needed drivers. However don't attempt that if you are uncomfortable with installing or removing components, and that you know which card is your firewire card (just a little disclaimer there...

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The reason for the above, is that if it was a problem with VS, then when you tried it with Movie Maker, there should not have been a problem. So that narrows it down to the Firewire Cable, your Operating System, or even your camera...

Ron P.