When I try to capture from a tape from my vcr using Pinnacle 9, it captures the sound, though the quality sucks, but not the video. At least it detects the sound though, while the video is nothing. Iit's connected through USB. In the trouble help menu thingy it mentions having to connect to the PC's 1394 port, which happens to be the firewire port on mine...
You only Capture DV Video from a DV Camcorder or a Analogue Digital Converter through the 1394 firewire Port with a Standatd Analogue Capture device like the one you have you just Plug it in Normally through the USB port..... Have you made sure that you have the Drivers properly installed for your Capture device??? Also have you selected your Particular Device in the Capture settings as the Video source?? You also have to select which Input on the Capture device you are useing in the Capture software so if you are Captureing through S-Video you have to select "S-Video" in the device settings or if you are Captureing through the RCA/Composite inputs you have to select "RCA/Composite" in the Capture settings..... Also the Dazzle DVC80/DVC85/DVC90 USB Capture devices are some of the Worst ones you could Possibly get for Quality....USB doesn"t have enough Bandwidth to efficiently Transfer Uncompressed Full Res Video to your PC through USB so you can expect to get Low Quality captures with frame Drops and Sync problems.... If you have to get a USB device get one that uses Hardware Compression that way the Video signal is Compressed before it is Transfered to your PC so there aren"t Problems with frame Drops and Low quality and Sync problems..... You can allways Try useing the Capture Software that came with the Device or some other Software and then Just import your Captured File into Studio 9 for editing..You don"t have to capture useing Studio 9..... Good Luck
Dazzle is the software that came with the device. And yes, I made sure all the settings were correct, and junk. I think I'm gonna take it back, maybe try to find something else...
I went the Dazzle route, I bought video cards. I tried them all.What a pain in the a**. The best and easiest way was when I bought a Pioneer 810-HS. A digital video recorder with a burner built in and TIVO basic. I bought it for the Tivo and the burner. I found out afterwards and by accident that I could hook up my vcr to it with rca cables and copy my tapes to the hard drive on the unit and then to dvd. I then could take the dvd-rws up to my computer to edit. After I got done with the tapes I wanted copied I stll had the DVR with TIVO that I have used every day for the last 2 years. Pioneer does not make a DVR with Tivo basic anymore, but Toshiba does. If i was buying a new unit this is what I would buy: http://shopper-zdnet.com.com/Toshib...5-30898709.html?tag=ob_50&orderby=50&sort=asc and : http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/dvr/product.asp?model=rs-tx20 One warning , these units do NOT record digital cable or Hi Def
