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Premiere CS3, Can’t Activate recorder try re-setting camera.
Hello,
I have been trying for over 1 week to capture material from DV and HDV, into Adobe Premiere pro cs3.
Re-installed Vista Ultimate 32bit, Adobe production Premium cs3 as well loads of times and still can’t capture.
I have Vista Ultimate 32bit with updates for my Motherbaord chipset, and Nvidia 8800gtz graphics card. With all the Vista updates, and Adobe updates updated as of today as well.
I can capture in Windows Movie Maker, DV but as soon as i try in Premiere Pro cs3, i get can’t activate recorder, try resetting camera, it’s not the cable, firewire port, or the cameras.
It seems to be something blocking Premiere. I looked at the knowledgebase on Adobe, and disbaled non Microsoft services from running. Logged in as administrator, as well as looked at the Wikipedia link about certain 3rd party codecs and filters which can cause the issue. I have none of those on my pc.
I also registered that dv plugin as well, I went to the Start menu and selected Run then typed “regsvr32 qdv.dll
It said registered, I launched Premiere Pro cs3 again and tried to capture still no use.
Anyone had similar issues?
Thanks,
Leo
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7 Replies
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are you sure the capture mode, camera output setting and project settings match. If one of them is on DV or HDV and the rest is not, especially the camera you’ll get this error. I had a similar problem only to find my firewire port on the camera had a problem. You are supposed to boot the computer, connect the FW cable to camera – then computer. Then turn on the camera. Windows makes a noise to identify the camera connection, then there will be options for which app you want to open. Now you open PPro.
If you have the camera on before you connect it to the computer you can damage the camera’s connection as there is a small electric pulse sent from your computer to the camera. When the camera is on at the same time you can cause a fault. I hope this is not your situation.
Have you got it to work on another computer?
– Jon 🙂How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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Hello Jon,
Yes, the camera settings match my project. It seems that Adobe Premiere pro has the issue of not allowing me to record from the camera. Windows Movie Maker works fine and so does Cineform HDLINK. The camera is being identfied, yes I always use the setup booting the pc up, then put the firewire cable into the camera, while windoes is on then get the usual pop up, open with Premiere etc.
It’s so frustrating this Adobe issue, Yes I moved to another pc the cable and camera gets picked up by WIndows Movie Maker, I have not tested Adobe Production Premium cs3 on that pc as it’s on the main edit computer.
I’ll email Adobe Monday with my nfo file of my system and see if they can work out why, I feel like moving to Avid or something now.
I have never had this problem before with not being able to capture.
Thanks,
Leo
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Leo Baker
Post Production
Sync Films
United Kingdom
http://www.syncfilms.com
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I have a SONY Z1 and have never had issues with CS3 and capturing HDV/DV. There must be something conflicting with the system. Cineform might be causing some kind of conflict, I’ve had something like that in CS2. Did you install Vegas on the same system? I had that and found it did weird things to Adobe.
– Jon 🙂How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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Hello,
I tried with and without Cineform, also no Sony Vegas was installed.
I am baffled why I can’t capture from HDV or DV.
Leo
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I have the same problem with CS3 and JVC HD110. It seems to be completely random, one day capture works flawlessly and the next day, the same project with the same settings goes nuts and makes me reset the camera or restart Premiere every time I want to capture something.
Guess it’s just another crazy Premiere issue.
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I found this solution that worked for me, even though it was on a Windows Moviemaker forum.
Not only did it fix Moviemaker but it got Premiere working when it would not capture DV footage
https://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=12304
Read the above post, but basically what you do is run the following command in windows xp’s RUN command box:
regsvr32 %windir%system32qdv.dll
Rowby Goren
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hi and thanks
this is the correct information – needs thoise backslashes to work
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\qdv.dll
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