Help with capturing video with premiere

[Force Flow]

I did a fresh install of premiere on XP Pro. I had movie capturing working in 98SE, but for the life of me, I can't get it to work in XP. It records 2-3 seconds to the HDD, but the film on the camera keeps on rolling after that. By all indications, it is still recording (the play button and record button are pushed), but the moive capture preview window stops after those 2-3 seconds.

I'm using premiere 6.0 and a Cannon ZR-50

And yes, there is plenty of disk space (60GB free)

[edit]: Hmm...maybe I should have stuck this in the multimedia form...then again, it is a software issue...

[RJ]

When you capture even with the preview off, does the captured avi contain the complete video or is it black too ?

RJ

[SonicVanguard]

How are you capturing the video? If it is via firewire, I'd be sure to check that your IEEE-1394 card is OHCI 2.0 compliant. If it is not, then an upgrade is in order: http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/28fb2.htm

I would also reference here: http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/2b67e.htm

I'm generally suprised you are having issues with a Canon product since Adobe and Canon work very closely together. Which really leads me to believe it has something to do with your IEEE-1394 card or it's driver.

HTH.

[Force Flow]

Okay, in the moive capture window, when I disable video, nothing is recorded. It just makes a 97K avi file. When sound is disabled, the video records fine (but with no sound).

Both ways still show a preview in the preview window of the movie capture window. When I disable sound, sound comes from both the video and from my computer. If video is disabled or nothing is disabled, I get no sound from my computer.

When I disable previews during video capture, I get the 2-3 seconds recorded without sound, like before.

[Force Flow]

@SonicVanguard, I'm using the firwire ports off my motherboard.

Come to think of it, I haven't captured anything with this board yet, either in 98SE or XP.

[edit]: I looked at the article, and it said if that was the problem I should be getting error messages. I am getting no error messages.

[SonicVanguard]

From Adobe:

The built-in DV support in Premiere 6.x requires the Microsoft DV class driver (MSDV), which cannot coexist in Windows with any other DV class drivers. MSDV supports any OHCI-compliant IEEE 1394 interface in Windows XP, 2000, Me, or 98 SE.

Check your firewire cable and verify that your motherboards capture port is indeed OHCI compliant - many 'consumer' level IEEE-1394 cards and those on motherboards are not.

If that is the case, you should be able to capture without software control. Disable software control, press play on your ZR-50 and press record in the capture window.

HTH.

[Force Flow]

In my device manager, it says:
OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 Host controller

The firewire cable came with the camera, btw.

[SonicVanguard]

Does it outline what verion OHCI? Premiere 6.x and higher requires v.2.0 to work properly.

Also...can you capture manually (without camera control) as I mentioned previously?

[Force Flow]

It's a MS driver, version 5.1.2535.0

[edit]: nevermind...this part of the question was ansered above

[SonicVanguard]

The MS driver is OHCI 2.0 compliant - that does not mean the on-board IEEE-1394 port is.

But...I'd still like to know:

can you capture manually (without camera control) as I mentioned previously?

[Force Flow]

Yes, I can press play on the camera and hit record in the capture window. It doesn't do anything different.

Also, that 2-3 second capture is always exactly 54 frames.

[SonicVanguard]

I believe you said you get a 97K AVI file. But it reocrds fine if you turn off the audio capture. So if it's OHCI issues, then I'd look next at codec issues. What codecs (audio and video) are you using for capture? And have you tried changing them to see if that fixes the problem?

[Force Flow]

I have whatever came with WMP 9.0. I just went and downloaded the newest ones from MS.

[Force Flow]

It looks like the updated codecs did it. Thanks for all your help, SonicVanguard!

[SonicVanguard]

My pleasure.