Moderator: Ken Berry
Dear KenKen Berry wrote:I am afraid that VS11/11.5 only has one capture plug-in, so you can't select a different one. Corel, in their wisdom, changed the ones that worked in previous versions, for a single InterVideo one in VS11. It had trouble capturing analogue source material from a device which uses firewire (mini DV camera, Digital 8 camera or external DV capture device) but has no trouble normally capturing digital DV from a mini DV camera. And in any case the analogue-to-DV problem was largely resolved with the 6 November patch which you have obviously installed since in fact you have VS11.5.
(A word in Corel's defence: I think they had to change the capture plug-ins anyway since the old Direct Show ones apparently don't work, at least not properly, under Vista...)
Can we assume that you have tried either first connecting the camera via firewire and switching it on then opening VS; or conversely, opening VS then switching on the camera? Normally one or the other works.
Do you get any error message (e.g. failed to build capture graph)?
thank you for your prompt reply.2Dogs wrote:Hi ironcutter,
I would first see if you can capture with another program. You might try Windows MovieMaker, which is actually built in to XP, otherwise you could also download a tiny freeware program called WinDV, of which I know uncle Ken is very fond!
thank you for your tip, onestly is only another way to work that I never consider before, the oppurtunity to rename the file could be very usefull. I'll try this application.2Dogs wrote:Hi Matteo,
sorry, I should have read the preceding posts more thoroughly!
At least you are able to capture, so you have a usable workflow.
Personally, I rarely use VS to capture video from my JVC miniDV camcorder - no version to date has properly controlled the camcorder, and I risk damaging the heads when VS puts it into a very noisy pause mode. (on one occasion I had to run a head cleaning tape after it had been in that mode for an extended period without my noticing)
If you haven't yet tried WinDV, you might be pleasantly surprised. It's a really compact program, that starts up in an instant, and gives 100% reliable capturing with no dropped frames. It also offers the useful option of you naming the captured files with your own convention, as opposed to VS's unwieldy default naming scheme. I therefore consider it no hardship whatsoever to use WinDV for capture followed by VS for editing.
Can you confirm that you did one of these if it was opposite to what you normally do...Can we assume that you have tried either first connecting the camera via firewire and switching it on then opening VS; or conversely, opening VS then switching on the camera? Normally one or the other works.
dear ken,Ken Berry wrote:Yes it does -- it is a very simple little program. The only trick you need to look out for is to set a maximum length of over one hour's worth of frames if you are in the habit of capturing a whole DV tape in one go and without split-by-scene activated. I think the default of WinDV is about 20 minutes, but if you have split-by-scene activated and haven't got a video which was all filmed in one take, then you should be OK.
