Video capture drivers

[robinwid]

I have just installed Video Studio 5 and using my Canon XH/A1 HDD camera I get the following message " can not change to capture mode --check video capture driver is working properly" .Does this mean there is not a driver for my camera and secondly how do you 'check your driver is working properly'.
Many thanks

[Ken Berry]

The problem seems to be that Microsoft in their wisdom decided to update the firewire driver with Windows 7. I and quite a few others had the same problem as you (I too have a Canon -- though a HV20 -- using firewire.) What you need to do is roll back the driver to a legacy one, although the process itself is "updating" the new one, as follows:

1- Open Device Manager

2- Expand the "IEEE 1394 Bus Host Controllers" node in the device tree by double clicking.

3- Select the Driver tab and the click the Update driver button.

4- Select "Browse my computer for driver software"

5- Select "let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer ..." and Check the box before “Show compatible hardware”.

6. Choose the second option--- "1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy)", and click next to update the driver.

[skier-hughes]

It isn't really Microsofts fault, they just moved to following the IEEE1394 standards more closely, which is why some cams suffer more than others, as Canon, (an I own 3 canon camcorders) are the worst culprits for not sticking to the standards more of their cams don't work with the new drivers. These in fact came out with XP SP2, when i did lots of work with MS on resovling this problem, hence the legacy driver