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Can’t activate recorder error. HD
I HAVE read the previous threads and the Adobe site suggestions to no avail.
All the sudden when I try capturing HD from my Canon XH A1s with PPro CS4 I get this error message “Can’t activate recorder, try resetting Camera”.
It wasn’t doing this last week and I haven’t changed any settings.
So multiple times in different sequences I tried turning re-setting & turning the cam off, restarting the computer, checked all my internal cam settings, unplugged the firewire cable.
And yes, I read all of the suggestions on the Adobe site.
I can capture with a cheap 80 dollar program with the same firewire connection but I don’t like to with that because I can’t refine the capture settings like in PPro.
So If any of you know or have a guess on whats going on here I’d appreciate any input.
I did notice that when I turn the camera on it doesn’t always get detected by windows other than the first time, should it?
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3 Replies
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[Danny Winn] “should it?”
Absolutely, yes.
If you create a new project can you capture using the camcorder?
Cheers
Eddie -
Thanks Eddie,
Even though I was setting up a new project and selecting HDV 108024p for my capture setting, the problem I know now was that it was defaulting back to “DV” in the “Capture Settings” Tab when I attempted to capture, I never looked there because the error message makes it sound like your camera is the problem. I knew I was selecting HDV 108024P in the initial project setups (I did about 12 different project setups before I caught it).
The error message should say “Check HDV/DV Capture settings”. Haha
Seems to work now but I will always check that when capturing now.
Thanks for your response.
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You’re welcome.
I’m glad you figured it out.
Happy editing. 🙂
Cheers
Eddie
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