Camcorder help

[Pipefighter248]

I will make a donation to the board in the name of the person that finds a cure.



Tried to connect the camcorder to the computer today to capture some video of the little boy and to my luck the Computer is not "recognizing" it.
I did some searching on the net to try and figure it out and seen a lot of sites about people having problems with the service pack 2 that is in Windows XP now.
I figured it might have been the new computer, so I hooked it back up to the old one and it didn't recognize it either.
Anyone have any ideas?
Hooking up through IEE 1394 Firewire or I-link as Sony likes to call it.
1394 card is showing up in the device manager, and it will still work using an external DVD writer, but not with the camcorder.
Camcorder is a Sony HC32 if that matters, but I saw on the net that other make and models were haveing trouble connecting.

 

[nitrousjunkie]

You have to load the USB 2.0 software and driver Nathan,I had the same problem.

 

[Pipefighter248]

Trying to load using firewire.
I installed all the software with the 1394 card and the software that came with the camcorder.
Still no luck.
Computer manufacturer points to Sony.
Sony points to CPU.
Spent hours trying to get it to work.

From what I gather it is a problem with Microsoft and the XP service pack 2.

 

[Pipefighter248]

Come on people.
Help Pipe out.
Gotta upload the little one.
Then it's on to take video's of the new exhaust.

 

[nitrousjunkie]

Nathan,fug the stuff that came with the cam,load the USB 2.0 support from your XP disk,then reboot.Trust me,I ran into this with my 350gig external portable drive,same errors and all.I took my tower to a shop,they loaded the USB support from the disk and the driver and all was good.

 

[Pipefighter248]

I'll try to see if I can find it on there.
Checking now.

 

[Pipefighter248]

I don't have the XP disk.
I have the restore CD that came with the computer.
Can't find drivers on it.

 

[CAT3]

Pipe, I had similar issue with my Sony DCR TRV460, I ended up going to Sony's website, searched the download drivers section and found one, not the exact model IIRC, but it works. I actually had to download, install, then use it, later I went back to use it again, had to install it again, and repeated 3 more times like that until I could simply plug it in and recognize it. Talk about wanting to check out Apple Pro Books! Oh yeah. Tired of this MS= BS.

 

[Pipefighter248]

(CAT3 @ Dec. 26 2006,20:26) Pipe, I had similar issue with my Sony DCR TRV460, I ended up going to Sony's website, searched the download drivers section and found one, not the exact model IIRC, but it works. I actually had to download, install, then use it, later I went back to use it again, had to install it again, and repeated 3 more times like that until I could simply plug it in and recognize it. Talk about wanting to check out Apple Pro Books! Oh yeah. Tired of this MS= BS.

Searched Sony's site for driver.
Couldn't find one, only thing on their site relating to the camcorder is an update for the picture software.

 

[CAT3]

Try this? http://www.helpdrivers.com/ingles/listado/dow.asp?codigo=78029

Says its for your model....I know I had a PITA time finding one to work for mine. I've always like Sony's quality (but never their price), and this last quest for it to work right pretty much done it in, at least for now.

 

[Pipefighter248]

Costs 5 bucks for it.

 

[Pipefighter248]

Last bump before bed.

 

[Wag]

Does it give you any messages or errors at all?

Very strange.

--Wag--

 

[300Busa]

does the camera have to be on when you plug it in?

drivers updated?

try a different usb slot?

Camera battery fully charged?

Is there a setting on the camera to set it to (when hooked up to the computer)?

 

[bigoltool]

OK don't shoot me here but I have a old Canon Hi8 Camcorder and wanted to load my old family videos onto my PC so I could burn DVD's. Turned out that I had to have my camera connected to the PC (HP M390N Media Center Edition) when you booted it up and finally it all worked. I thought it was weird but that was right from HP's web support site.
FREE to try.

 

[heavybusa]

Does it use a memory card or tape?

Leave it plugged in and reboot the PC

 

[Pipefighter248]

Real quick before work.
All drivers updated.
Works through USB to upload pictures from memory card.
Batteries charged.
In correct mode on camcorder.
Camcorder shows its hooked up to firewire, windows just doesn't recognize it.
Used to just put it in the handycam station and turn on the camera and it would come on.
Tried booting up with it on, without, and every other in between.
It's a mini DV camcorder.
No error messages.

 

[Pipefighter248]

Cannot find a 1394 firewire driver, if required.
Looked all over the web.
Will try some more after work.
Thanks everyone.

 

[Revlis]

Burn Em' Both, Sleep Better...

OK seriously though fug the whole "Plug the Camera Into computer thing" get a card reader for $20 if you don't already have one and plug the memory car directly into the card reader into any open usb2 port. I have yet to find ANY of the bundled software with digicams to be worth a damn, not once.

If that doesn't work, sell all of your Sony stuff on ebay, and buy a computer without all of Sony's crippling proprietary bullcrap, you'll be much happier.

Other than TV's, PS2/3 and their ES line of Home Audio, I think Sony has sorta lost it's way... They aren't doing too good right now and it's their culture of "Everyone will do what we tell them" that is tearing em' down... Their laptops and digital camera's have done nothing but torture me over the years... Been through a few of them at work and two personal at home and will NEVER buy another Sony Camera or Laptop. They cannot seem to get either working right.

 

[heavybusa]

(Revlis @ Dec. 27 2006,12:32) Burn Em' Both, Sleep Better...