I’ve captured raw DV clips from the camcorder, edited them, rendered them but can’t get them back to the camcorder. The camcorder screen shows ‘pause’ with a still of the first clip – it then reads ‘play’ and the image immediately pixellates to black with the editing program player window showing elapsed time running at about ¼ real time.
I don’t think it’s the program (Studio 7 ver. 15.1.0) as the same effect is there with movie maker 2 and Ulead video studio. The camcorder (Pansasonic MX8) and firewire lead will accept clips from an eMac.

I run Studio 7 fresh from start up, no wallpaper, no screen saver, no background programs, no power off schemes, resolution set at 1024 x 768, colour 16 bit. I’ve updated DirectX, and display (Nvidia Geforce2 MX) drivers. Mobo and bios drivers are the latest. I’ve downloaded the MS patch for Panasonic devices.

What do I do next? How can I cure the problem?

PC set up details:
OS – XP ver. 5.1.2600
CPU – athlon XP 133
Mobo Kinetiz -7E-A (chipset VIA 82C305 rev3)
RAM – 256K
Video card – Nvidia Geforce2 MX
Video capture device - legacy
Firewire card is OHCI compliant

Camcorder Panasonic MX8 – UK (PAL) version

Have you checked to see if the MX8 has it's DV-in disabled? Just a thought.

done it. it works. looks like being an incompatible firewire card