Craiglet
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I appreciate your interest and help, Hewitt.
Yeah I think I’ve tried everything under the sun to capture the SD footage. No luck.
We had the same thought — I tried capturing DV footage and it DOES WORK fine. So that’s good! I haven’t tried capturing HD yet. And I still really need to figure out a way to capture SD still, but at least I can capture DV…
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My camera shows up in My Computer under Scanners and Cameras as “AVC Compliant DV Camcorder”
After reading this thread on another board I was hoping that all I needed to do was swap out my Firewire card for one that runs off a Texas Instruments chipset rather that the V/A one… So I bought a new one last night at Fry’s, got it home, opened it up, and although the one pictured on the box clearly had a TI chip (you can see the logo on the big chip), the one inside had a V/A chip… D’oh! Another trip to Fry’s today and I got one with a TI chip… sure enough, the Device Manager shows the port now, under IEEE 1394 Bus Host Controller as a Texas Instrument OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller.
I’ve fired up all my various capture tools. Same exact result as before — camera is recognized and controllable, but black preview screen and no frames capture. =+(
This is driving me nuts. I’m still unable to complete what’s usually a five minute task after two days of research and trips to the computer store.
FWIW… my camera’s iLink out is set to SW as directed in the manual, and to MPEG2 as directed in the manual for SD footage. And Adobe’s site lists my camera as “Fully Supported” for Premiere Pro. It also says that any OHCI compliant Firewire card is supported. The JVC site is no help whatsoever as best I can tell. I also tried a brand new Firewire cable, in case that was the problem. No dice…
Anybody’s wisdom or wild speculation will be greatly appreciated.
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Thanks Hewitt, interesting. I found another post that was a few years old and regarding a different JVC camera, but it suggested that not all Firewire cards will work properly with various camcorders, in this instance JVC models. They described the exact same symptoms — can control the camera from the capture window but no video or audio, black preview screen and 00 frames captured.
My Firewire card works fine with external Firewire drives but I’ve never used this card to capture before… I wonder if it is the culprit. I wish I had a list of supported cards because I’m not sure how to proceed short of just buying new cards randomly and testing them out. But thats not very practical… Ugh, I miss my Mac! LOL
Windows jumps right in whenever I turn on the camera, I’ve tried telling it to take no action, to capture using Premiere Pro, to capture using Windows Movie Maker, to capture using Roxio… it will launch the app but the attempted capture result is always the same.
Anybody?
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I assume you are talking about the Accessories/System Tools/Character Map utility ?… Exactly the same result — none. AE ignores text on the clipboard, paste is greyed out in the menu, Ctrl-V has no result…
Perhaps I’m not explaining the problem well enough? I feel like you are still missing my point.
In a nutshell, I can find no way to get a “special character” into an AE text layer through typing, pasting, or otherwise, but I feel there has to be a way… Anybody? Thanks…
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Thanks for the reply… however I understand all that. I’m such a type dork that I keep an ASCII character reference chart next to my computer, lol, so I’m quite famililar with how one finds and accesses the characters.
The problem is: AE does nothing when I type in alt + **** in a text layer (**** = ASCII code)… It similarly ignores me trying to paste in text from the clipboard. What am I missing here?