Trial user - VideoStudio does not recognize Panasonic GS-150 model as the camera from which to capture video. The hardware system does recognize the camera as a USB connected camera.
VideoStudio only recognizes a camera as an unknown digital video camera. Will this effect capture?
VideoStudio does control the camera during capture process (Start camera playback, rewind etc). By clicking on the apprpriate icon in VideStudio on capture screen, the camera starts playing back the video, the program timer starts in VideoStudio but no video is actually captured!
I do get a message that the Capture process is having trouble starting in spite of the program actually controlling the camera playback.
Suggestions? Is this a frewall problem, a setup problem, a USB problem?
Thanks
Trial user - VideoStudio does not recognize Panasonic GS-150
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Well, your camera is certainly a good one, and even has a USB 2.0 port which in theory means you should be able to transfer high quality video over it to your computer. However, at looking at some of the buyer comments on it on the web (Google search), other people are also having trouble capturing via the USB port, so I don't know whether this is a design fault or because they were not using the software which came with the camera (if any did!!)
At any rate. there is a simple solution. Your camera also has the standard Firewire IEEE-1394 port, which is what the rest of us mere mortals use to capture our video. Look in your manual -- it may be called Firewire or iLink and I think on your camera is located under the LCD. It will be a small port, much like your USB 2 mini-port. Unfortunately, camera manufacturers never include a Firewire cable with their cameras, so you will need to buy one. Depending on the Firewire card in your computer (if you have one), the cable will normally be a 4 pin to 6 pin version. Hopefully you will have a Firewire port on your computer, but if not, you could get one installed. Then, when you have it connected, you select 'DV' as the capture format in Video Studio and you should be able to proceed from there.
My own suspicion is that, for whatever reason, your USB 2 port on the camera may be used only for what they call 'streaming video' -- in other words using your camera like a high quality webcam and being able to stream live video to a monitor outside the camera. It can also, of course, be used to transfer any still photos taken with the video camera, which I think in the case of your camera, will be bigger and better than most video cameras are capable of in the still photo stakes at a claimed 2.3 megapixels.
At any rate. there is a simple solution. Your camera also has the standard Firewire IEEE-1394 port, which is what the rest of us mere mortals use to capture our video. Look in your manual -- it may be called Firewire or iLink and I think on your camera is located under the LCD. It will be a small port, much like your USB 2 mini-port. Unfortunately, camera manufacturers never include a Firewire cable with their cameras, so you will need to buy one. Depending on the Firewire card in your computer (if you have one), the cable will normally be a 4 pin to 6 pin version. Hopefully you will have a Firewire port on your computer, but if not, you could get one installed. Then, when you have it connected, you select 'DV' as the capture format in Video Studio and you should be able to proceed from there.
My own suspicion is that, for whatever reason, your USB 2 port on the camera may be used only for what they call 'streaming video' -- in other words using your camera like a high quality webcam and being able to stream live video to a monitor outside the camera. It can also, of course, be used to transfer any still photos taken with the video camera, which I think in the case of your camera, will be bigger and better than most video cameras are capable of in the still photo stakes at a claimed 2.3 megapixels.
Ken Berry