PLEASE HELP ME! Panasonic firewire connection won't work!
I am so stressed out. Spent about two hours trying to get this camera to cooperate, yet nothing.
Problem: Camcorder firewire is connected to computer and camera is turned to VCR mode and nothing on the computer displays hardware is plugged in. Did several searches in Device Manager and still found nothing.
Hardware: The camera is a Panasonic MINI DV Palmsight Model # PV-DV400D..Even searched panasonics website and turns out this is an old camcorder so they had nothing to offer..I don't have any hardware for the camera, my older brother said he didn't need hardware for it to work with his computer. I tried installing Microsoft Direct X 9.0 because I read somewhere that it would help, but still no change.
My older brother who is away at college said it works fine with his computer but he can't remember how to work it. I tried connecting the firewire on my computer and on my other brothers, and yet nothing. I noticed that my brother had a webcam connected and it showed up in the device manager as "Imaging Devices" so I unplugged it and connected the firewire and the imaging devices dissapeared and nothing showed up. I also checked in the Sounds and Game controls thinking it was a Texas Instrument, but still nothing shows up.
Re: PLEASE HELP ME! Panasonic firewire connection won't...
In short, many people have firewire issues such as missing motherboard drivers, or dead firewire ports.
You have to show it working on some machine before you know to try to fix your machine.
Did you try Movie Maker?
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The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.
Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo cataloging program such as Picasa.
Try NOT connecting your camera to your computer. The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.
Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo cataloging program, such as Picasa.
The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.
Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo cataloging program, such as Picasa ( http://picasa.google.com ).
The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.
Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo cataloging program, such as Picasa ( http://picasa.google.com ).
So if it's miniDV and you have a firewire cable, it should work. Have you followed this sequence: If your battery is sufficiently charged to run the cam for an hour's worth of tape, fine, otherwise connect cam to AC power. With cam OFF, connect Firewire cable to Mac and cam. Open iMovie, name your project and create so that the viewer screen comes up. Turn on the cam. At this point, your Mac should, within moments, say "camera connected". Cam needs to be set on "playback" mode for capture. Then click "import" button and your Mac will control the cam.
If you still get a "no camera connected" you have to consider the possibility that either the firewire cable is bad or the firewire port on cam or Mac is bad. If you have more than one firewire port on your Mac, try switching. An Apple store should be able to help you determine if you have a bad cable or cam port, if you take both in to try on their Mac. Hope this gets you on track.
The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.
Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo cataloging program such as Picasa.
Vista is notorious for not recognizing firewire unfortunately. Here is a link to a Microsoft Knowledge Base article that should help your situation. Hope this helps. Good luck.
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