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Video Preview through Firewire on a PC
I’m a long time Mac user who just bought his first PC. I’m trying to get Video Preview to work on AE7 through my Firewire port. I am getting an output option for IEEE 1394 OHCI compliant in Video Preview settings in AE, and XP is reading my DV camera, and this setup works fine on my Mac. Do I need a special driver or something?
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You must have read this, yes?
https://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/326110.htmlYou shouldn’t need a special driver. You should be seeing the comp window, sent out of the computer to your camcorder, then to your TV. Same as on Mac.
Hmm … might need more information, but not sure what.
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Yes, thanks I had seen that and had gone through it thoroughly. But then I looked again and followed a link to another document (https://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/327652.html)which has hidden in it the following:
“Note: OHCI-compliant IEEE 1394 cards and iLink ports don’t support the After Effects video preview feature.”
I was using a MiniDV camera with iLink. I guess I’ll have to borrow some other camera and see if that solves the problem. Perhaps it would be not too expensive to my some other internal card for the PC that will do an NTSC out? Any thoughts on this would be very much appreciated.
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That Adobe post you refer to is about AE 5.5 and 6.0, not 6.5 and 7.0.
If you select IEEE 1394 out from your preview options, AE will allow you to mirrow your comp window to firewire. Then if you have firewire in to your camera, and have selected any menu options you need to enable firewire in on the camera, you should be able to plug in a video monitor to camera video out and see your AE output.
It does work, and doesn’t need additional hardware or drivers.
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This is exactly how I have it working on my Mac with AE7 – I switched the firewire connection from the DV camera over to the PC and it won’t mirror on the monitor. All the settings are correct under Video Preview.
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Hmm. I don’t have 7 on Windows yet, but on 6.5 on Windows, this setup works, outputting the comp window to the camcorder:
– AE 6.5.1
– Dell XPS Gen2 laptop with built-in IEEE 1394
– Canon Optura Pi
– output device: IEEE 1394
– Previews, mirror, interactions are all checkedAny clues there?
(trivia to those watching: it’s pronounced “eye-triple-ee”)
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Strange. AE does this fine: so either the camera setup is off – which it sounds like we know is not the case – or the IEEE 1394 port is not functioning – lets check that – or there’s some problem with the AE install – which seems unlikely.
I’d be thinking about troubleshooting the port next.
The system is evidently “seeing” the firewire port, or AE would not offer you the option – but it sounds like the port isn’t working for you.
Is there another firewire socket on your computer you can try?
Do you have other firewire devices running?
It would be good to know that the port is functioning correctly, so if you’ve used anything else with it successfully that would be a plus.
Otherwise, you might try looking in control panel / system / device manager for the appropriate 1394 bus controlller, and check in its properties panel that it reports functioning normally …
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I switched to different DV camera and the video preview seems to be working fine. I’m not sure why, as the first camera works no problem with the Mac. Thanks everyone for your trouble shooting tips.
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Glad you solved it!
Which makes & models were the cameras?
Which worked and which didn’t work? -
The first camera that worked on the Mac but not on the PC is a Sony DCR-PC300. The one that does work on both systems is a Sony DCR-TRV9. Not sure what the difference is. If anyone has any thoughts on this I’d liked to hear them.
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