Robert Spoecker
May 2nd, 2009, 07:25 PM
Hi everyone.
I come from a still camera background and know about nothing of movie cameras.
I have a cannon 5D mark II and shot some hi definition movies but soon decided that shooting 12 minutes at a time to a 4 gig card was not gonna satisfy me so I forged ahead and bought an HV30. I also bought Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0 and thought I could do my editing on a Fujitsu laptop running windows XP.
I then found the lap top did not have a Fire Wire port so I ordered a 3 port fire wire device to plug into my computer's 32-bit CardBus PCMCIA Type II standard compliant device.
At the same time I ordered a HDV/DV to Fire Wire cable and it just does not work.
I used the same cable to connect to my Macintosh which has a Fire Wire port and used the Macintosh's Moviemaker software and it works great.
I realize that the PCMCIA card might still be faulty but I just don't believe that yet. I think Fujitsu's flavor of XP does not support Fire Wire as it should.
Has anyone run into this (or similar problem) and come up with a solution or am I just going to be forced to buy a computer with built in Fire Wire support? I would probably get nothing but a vista machine anymore (ugh).
Thanks for your consideration.
I am looking forward to making moving pictures along with my still pictures.
Robert
I come from a still camera background and know about nothing of movie cameras.
I have a cannon 5D mark II and shot some hi definition movies but soon decided that shooting 12 minutes at a time to a 4 gig card was not gonna satisfy me so I forged ahead and bought an HV30. I also bought Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0 and thought I could do my editing on a Fujitsu laptop running windows XP.
I then found the lap top did not have a Fire Wire port so I ordered a 3 port fire wire device to plug into my computer's 32-bit CardBus PCMCIA Type II standard compliant device.
At the same time I ordered a HDV/DV to Fire Wire cable and it just does not work.
I used the same cable to connect to my Macintosh which has a Fire Wire port and used the Macintosh's Moviemaker software and it works great.
I realize that the PCMCIA card might still be faulty but I just don't believe that yet. I think Fujitsu's flavor of XP does not support Fire Wire as it should.
Has anyone run into this (or similar problem) and come up with a solution or am I just going to be forced to buy a computer with built in Fire Wire support? I would probably get nothing but a vista machine anymore (ugh).
Thanks for your consideration.
I am looking forward to making moving pictures along with my still pictures.
Robert