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Video Camera not being seen correctly
Hi there –
I’m hoping there are other AE users who have hooke up their video cameras to their PC’s here… 2 of my 3 computers are not seeing my video camera correctly.
Attached is a video of the process where the connection fails:
https://www.allbetsareoff.com/temp/vidcam.mov
It’s a standard DV Camera – in the past it has worked fine – no drivers have ever been needed – connections have not been an issue – but something has happened in the last few months, either to the camera or computers.
It works perfectly on one computer – so that pretty much rules out the camera being busted, I think.
Any suggestions as to what might be going on? It’s looking for drivers that it should not be looking for. Canon insists there are no special drivers. Any ideas for work arounds?
thanks
Aharon
Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web -
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I have had this happen frequently with my Optura40… and, it took me forever to find out why this would happen off and on (well, sort of…).
Most of the time, my problem was caused the connection to the camera and/or firewire connection on the computer.
Are you using the same connection cable? You need to be specially aware of the connection end that attaches to the camera…. you need to push it in all the way… with mine, I have to push it REALLY hard. Which BTW, really doesn’t make sense since I also see it as hardware that is being recognized but with the “?” mark in the device manager.
Now that I noted a common solution to my problem… I have to admited that there have been instances where I had to simply rebooted the computer to get the digital camera to work (make sure the camera is turned on and connection is good).
Another solution which I have tried (…which is one among many… so many of which I can’t remeber some of the attempts… but one thing that seemed to work frequently is that I used MS’s Movie Maker because in some instances no other software I had worked (and, I have a lot of software to choose from). You might try and us MS’s Movie Maker.
I am not sure what this problem is exactly… but, it seems to only happen with my Canon… personally, I think it IS a driver issue… but, I can’t prove it.
Hope this helps… Joe Moya
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Thanks Joe – it looks like I may have some kind of conflict with my firewire card and firewire ports. Or possibly the firewall. We’re working on it. Fortunately, it turns out that the camera functions well over USB 2.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web -
ultimately – here is what happened. When the factory installed my firewire 800 card, the computer used firewire 800 drivers for all firewire ports/adapters.
Firewire 800 is not compatible with firewire cameras. The firewire 400 ports still worked because the 800 drivers are able to read hard drives – so I never noticed the problem – until I tried to hook in the camera.
So I changed the drivers for the on-board firewire port to the standard windows firewire drivers. That fixed it. I can now hook the camera up to my on-board firewire port.
The other computer, it turned out, was having all sorts of driver problems – just in need of a full reinstall. That fixed that problem.
Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web
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