How can I capture video from my digital vid camera (it's not being recognized)? *PLUGGED IT IN*

[StageLeft]

JVC GR-D30. I was given this. I have the firewire drivers for my motherboard (built in firewire) installed and working properly under win2003. I have a cable running to the vid camera, but I can't capture anything. I have Ulead 7 and when I hit the capture tab it says that either no video capture driver is installed in the system, or the camera is turned off.

I thought that there must be a generic way to rip this video, but I can't find it. The JVC site has absolutely no support that I can find for this video camera.

*UPDATE*

Well, I had the plate on the back of the comp hooked up to the cable externally, but I'd never made the internal connection. Oops. It works

 

[tiap]

Haven't done captures for quite a while, but you can get all the info you need at these forums

dvdrhelp.com

There are many freeware progs for capture by firewire. They are small. Try to stay away from the many bloated do everything progs.

You'll find all associated video guides and progs there. Great site, but ready yoourself for a lot of reading

 

[DaveSimmons]

You might check www.DVDRHelp.com and their guides.

I'm used to analog where you really do capture, I'm not sure you need to capture digital the same way as analog rather than copy it and later transcode from the DV format to something like MPEG2.

 

[Turkish]

^^ what those two said.

 

[thirdlegstump]

I've had quite a bit of trouble getting JVC camcorders to be recognized or working properly on PC's. They seem to capture fine on Macs although the remote controls never quite worked right. I think it's a problem in JVC's implementation of firewire. We ended up getting a Canon GL2 and bam. Worked perfect although a bit pricey. Their Elura models apparently work great too.

 

[StageLeft]

Thanks. I've checked dvdrhelp and there is an article on the Ulead software. It seems to me that there is nothing specific about this camera, or any camera for that matter; I think that once the firewire drivers are installed, as mine are, then you merely turn the camera on and capture. Still no success at all though.

 

[Kenazo]

It would be sweet if the digital video cameras just showed up like another drive (like when you plug in a digicam). Then you could just drag and drop.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
It would be sweet if the digital video cameras just showed up like another drive (like when you plug in a digicam). Then you could just drag and drop.

I've seen at least one that just uses a huge flash card, so I bet that's how it works, but you're not going to fit much on one of those!

 

[Kenazo]

You mean one like this? Seems a bit hokey to me.

 

[StageLeft]

Fixed!

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Fixed!

That spark-gap thing is just a tough one to work around