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DV Device Control 2.0 will not recognise the Camera

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philip mcdonnell

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Feb 17, 2003, 3:52:51 AM2/17/03
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I've just bought a new PC with WinXP Home Ed installed. Having installed Premiere 6.0 and the 6.02 update, our Panasonic NS-DV150B (listed in Premiere) just is not recognised. I've read everything on on the web, searched for hardware updates and nothing will get the camera online. The firewire card is OHCI compliant, the movie capture setting is DV Device Control 2.0 but nothing works. The project setting however, is DV/IEEE1394 and Windows capture and Quick time capture don't seem to work.

Does anyone have any idea what the problem isand how to fix it?

Bernhard Kaulfuss

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Feb 17, 2003, 9:59:28 AM2/17/03
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"philip mcdonnell" <philip.m...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote >

There is a hotfix by Microsoft, seems SP1 an XP make trouble with
Panansonic, mor information on www.slashcam.de.

Greetings from Germany


vejuzchill

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Feb 17, 2003, 11:49:41 AM2/17/03
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capturing dv from jvc dvL120 to premiere 6.5

When i first hooked the camera up it work and then tried again, and got the message "the dv device control 2.0- the dv device is unavailable for device control." so i hit up the adobe archives and found a hit for the same problem on 6.0. so i edited the prem60.ini file and added

[DXMedia]
NonCompliant1394Capture=1

read further and the article said that would work with canon cameras and to drop the value to 0 with any other so i changed it to

[DXMedia]
NonCompliant1394Capture=0

still getting the same message and i'm not finding anything to help me on the net does anyone have any ideas?

My OS is Windows 98se

philip mcdonnell

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Feb 18, 2003, 9:57:01 AM2/18/03
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I've answerd my own problem. For the camera to be able to act as a VCR so that Premiere 6.02 can see it, Win XP has to know the camera exists as a camera first.

This may seem blatantly obvious but our problem arose becase we already had the camera turned on and set to VCR when we connected it to the firewire port. XP needs to recognise the camera. VCR mode is not the default for the driver, I guess.

Therefore, ensure the camera is switched off before connecting to the PC. Once connected, turn the camera on as a camera. XP will then detect the camera and permit it to be switched to VCR mode for movie capture.

It's an obvious approach but not one mentioned in any manual. I hope this helps someone else too.

vejuzchill

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Feb 18, 2003, 1:28:39 PM2/18/03
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tried this techneque many times in different orders and didn't work
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