Problems Output to DV Camera

dagobert · Post by **dagobert** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:20 pm

Hi,
I want to send a video to my Sony PC100E via Firewire. I don't get any error message, but ther is flickering and some blue screen for about 2-4 seconds every 20 seconds.
I tried to reinstall the programm, the dirver of the firewirecard, defrag, tried a small video (about 200MB, the other one has about 12GB) many tools to clean my system, no success.
What can I try...

System:
WinXP, all SP, VS11 Trial, 2 HDDs (System/Files, each 250GB), what else is important?

I tried to capture and it works fine....

What could it be?

Thank You
Rupert

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:36 pm

Let's start by ensuring the cam does have dv-in enabled, does it?

Has it worked previously?

Have you tried another cable, as it could be something has got damaged and is not allowing the transfer back of info, so you really need to check the pc and cam ports as well by testing other known to work items.

dagobert · Post by **dagobert** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:25 pm

Hi,
yes, the camera has DV in and, as i tried to explain, it works, but with flickering in video and sound and many blue screens.

I will change the cable, but from camera to pc, the connection works well...

RUpert

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:38 pm

Just because camera to pc works doesn't mean pc to camera will, any of the three components can have developed a fault stopping it.

So it has worked properly before?

With the same pc?

Could be the pc can't cope with the strain of sending it back. Have you tried making an avi file and putting this on the timeline and sending that to the cam, in case there are too many transitions/effect for the pc to cope with in real time?

Have you turned all other things off?

This may help
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorial ... rVideo.htm

dagobert · Post by **dagobert** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:00 pm

Hi Graham,

thanks for the fast answers.

It didn't wok properly before, I just installed the firewire card one day ago.

I turned off all tasks i could identify. The avi - file is a simple, completely rendered file, so I just export the file, not from the timeline (btw. I tried it, but I can't export anything from the timeline)

I will try the hints from your Page... Lot's of work to do...

Rupert

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:44 pm

I'd start by testing, as it could well be a faulty component.

dagobert · Post by **dagobert** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:37 pm

Who's the man... (does anybody remember superfly?)

OK, now it seems to work...

Shutting down any Program and Service, defrag and now it works...

I will have to chek the threads for system requirements....

Thanks to everybody
Rupert