cannot capture HDV in Windows 7 64 bit

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cannot capture HDV in Windows 7 64 bit

Posted by Paul Cox on June 22, 2012 at 3:36 pm

Posted message below a month or so ago. Long exchange with Pro 11 support and Sony Broadcast. Still no resolution. I think I agree with both support depts that it has to be a driver issue. Why else would my Z5 and same firewire cable work in my 10 year old computer but not my new win 7 64 bit one. Has anyone any thoughts/experience of this problem before I enter the black hole that is Microsoft support?
Here’s spec for new PC:

Operating System
Platform: Windows 7 (64-bit)
Version: 6.01.7600

Processor
Class: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz
Identifier: GenuineIntel
Number of processors: 12
MMX available: Yes
SSE available: Yes
SSE2 available: Yes
SSE3 available: Yes
SSSE3 available: Yes
SSE4.1 available: Yes
SSE4.2 available: Yes

Display
Primary: 1920x1200x32

Memory
Physical memory: 32,745.4 MB
Paging memory available: 65,489.1 MB

2 NVidia cards – GTX 580 and GTX 520

Has anyone managed to solve this firewire connection problem. I have Windows 7 64 bit and Vegas Pro 11 and same problem. Can connect and control my Z5 camera but cannot capture in HDV. Can capture DVCAM, but connection keeps dropping. Have tried legacy driver in Windows 7 – same problem.

Have successfully captured from Sony F800 HD XDCAM disc camera using the Sony driver for that camera. The Firewire card is Startech 2 port PCI Express card – model no is PEX1394A2 and the chipset on the card is JMicron JM381. The computer manufacturer PC Specialist believe the chipset on this particular firewire card may be the culprit. My 10 year old XP computer still has no problem capturing from the Z5. Any thoughts gratefully received.

Paul Cox

https://www.coxcam.co.uk

Paul Cox replied 14 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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John Rofrano
June 23, 2012 at 2:50 pm

[paul cox] “Firewire card is Startech 2 port PCI Express card – model no is PEX1394A2 and the chipset on the card is JMicron JM381. The computer manufacturer PC Specialist believe the chipset on this particular firewire card may be the culprit”

I agree with your computer manufacturer PC Specialist. Get a firewire card with a Texas Instruments chipset and all of your problems should go away.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
John Rofrano
June 23, 2012 at 2:51 pm

I agree with your computer manufacturer PC Specialist. Get a firewire card with a Texas Instruments chipset and all of your problems should go away.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
Mike Kujbida
June 23, 2012 at 2:59 pm

I agree with John. The JMicron chipset is well known for not implementing (or changing, not sure which) the firewire instruction set to the point that it’s almost useless in a pro environment 🙁
Paul Cox
June 24, 2012 at 2:31 pm

Found a solution at last. An HP firewire driver for Windows Vista –

https://h10025.https://www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?cc=uk&destPage=softwareDownloadIndex&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN&lc=en&softwareitem=ob-74849-1&tmp_docname=

It’s from this Microsoft forum –

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-pictures/cannot-capture-hdv-in-windows-7/295d509f-71b0-4fca-a40c-f604e3fac07f
Paul Cox
June 24, 2012 at 2:40 pm

Link to HP Firewire driver didn’t work in last post. Please link via the Microsoft forum page if driver needed:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-pictures/cannot-capture-hdv-in-windows-7/295d509f-71b0-4fca-a40c-f604e3fac07f

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