Phil Seymour
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I’ll stick my beak in her again, mainly because I have seen this happen in the past for a few of reasons:
1. The original firewire chip in the computer has faulted and fried both your cameras’ firewire chips.
2. A faulty or miss-handled firewire cable has bent the tiny pins in the camera sockets.
3. Windows firewire port has been grabbed by a web cam.
4. And Murphy’s Law – both your cameras’ firewire chips went to Heaven together.Check device manager and see if the IEEE1394 adapter is recognised.
As Mike said, try the cameras on another computer, in which 1,2,3,4 above don’t apply if they work.
If you have Microsoft’s Movie Maker, see if that can see your camera.
Things like this are hard to diagnose remotely, and only a step-by-step process of elimination can point to the cause.
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Check out the Pinnacle Studio Movie Box… a thingy that plugs into the USB port and has firewire, s-video and composite inputs. It comes with Pinnacle’s software, but that should let you capture from the camera when the laptop hasn’t got a firewire port.
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Joao, if you have Vegas, you have DVD Architect. Architect is a DVD authoring program, and makes the VOB files and burns the DVD. But first… get a good book and teach yourself a little about the process of editing, rendering and authoring, then it should all be clear. Not overnight, mind you, there is a bit to learn – but eventually. 🙂
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To put it simply Joao, DVDs are played by standardised software, be it in a computer or DVD player. When files are compiled and burned to a DVD, they are encoded so that universal software understands it. Its a bit like languages. If people speak in your native tongue, you know and can repeat what they tell you, but if they speak in a language you are not very familiar with, then you can misinterpret what was said. A bit like politicians 🙂
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I understand what you are saying. But once again you are looking at a pre-ordained format from youtube. Why not try rendering and burning to a DVD and farm that around? Or put it on youtube.
If I’m on the wrong track, I would like someone to fill in the gaps in my logic. -
If it isn’t crossing any boundaries, I still have the convert program if you want it and can’t find it anywhere else.
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Mike…. in the days when Canopus was Canopus, their DV avi files were unplayable on non Canopus systems, but they did publish a convert program (free) and it should still be around the traps.
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Just a thought here.. Joao says he has rendered to wmv, and is looking at that file on different computers, but his example is of a compiled DVD… and this is not handled the same way. Does that make sense?
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One thing with windows is if you have used or enabled the Movie Maker program, it will grab the firewire port and lock Vegas out. Ditto with some web cams. Just a thought. Another possibility is a dead firewire chip.. that has happened to me. Check the settings in Device Manager.
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Well, there is your clue. It isn’t Vegas, it is your camera or its settings. If the camera is relatively new to you, then go over the user manual carefully, or seek a forum for that camera. Canon instruction books (and I used to be in the camera sales game) are pretty basic for those cameras IMHO.