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Vegas stopped recognizing deck
I have been switching the firewire cable between my Sony HVR-M15U deck and a Digital 8 handycam deck for weeks with no trouble. Today I capture some D8 tapes, then move the firewire cable to the M15 to capture some MiniDV and I get the message: “The device ‘Microsoft AV/C Tape Subunit Device’ could not be opened. Please make sure that it is turned on and is not being used by another application or user.”
What is the fix? Is it a windows/driver issue? Is it a deck issue – I get the same error when I plug the deck into a laptop. I’m running Vegas 4. Please help! -
3 Replies
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Do you get the Windows beep recognizing the deck? It could be several things such as:
1. Bad cable (check in the camera again)
2. Bad firewire port on the deck (check with a different cable)Those would be the first two things I would check.
Edward Troxel
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Yep – I get the windows boing when I plug the deck in, and all my Sony cams (D8 and PD170s) work with the cable on multiple firewire ports. The odd thing is that the deck worked fine for weeks, nothing changed, then it started giving me the error I mentioned.
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At this point I would try capturing with some other program such as Scenalyzer Live from the deck. If that also does not work, I would then start suspecting an issue with the firewire port on the deck.
Edward Troxel
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