Help - VS8 does not recognise my Sony Camcorder

[JasonJ]

Hi,
I am at a bit of a loss with VS8 at the moment.
Having had no problems connecting my Sony DCR-HC18 digital camcorder to my PC via Firewire and capturing successfully, i now seem to have developed a problem.
When trying to capture 60mins of footage the other day, for some reason it only recorded about half the tape.
When trying to capture the rest of the tape, my PC recognises that i've connected the Sony via Firewire and asks if i want to run VS8. Everything's then fine until i hit the capture tab in VS. My PC freezes for about 10 mins then i get an error saying the following:

Unable to switch to capture mode
Check if your video capture driver is working properly

Cannot preview

Now i don't know if something has been corrupted on my pc, but i was wondering if anyone else had experienced something similar and what would they recommend i try?

Any help would be appreciated
Thanks
Jason

[heinz-oz]

Same here

Now i don't know if something has been corrupted on my pc, but i was wondering....

unfortunately, no clairvoyant in sight?

[Ron P.]

Hi,
I am at a bit of a loss with VS8 at the moment.
i was wondering if anyone else had experienced something similar
Jason

I am too...

No, I haven't had a similar experience...

However the error may be telling you something to investigate

Check if your video capture driver is working properly

Have you tried looking into that?