Bjornalmar

Thank you both for advices... :) I am very glad that someone takes time to help out on problems in this forum. It showed to be a defect firewire. When I tried another firewire it was just plug an play!!!! Again thanks for help, and I hope that I will be able to give help to other searching people/newbies in the future! Best wishes Bjørn (I am a little bit embarrased that I used alot of energy on such a case, but at least I learned a little on my walkabout around the net!)

Hi out there... Hope someone can help me out on this: I recently bought a Sony Hvr-z1U. Eager to start I tried to connect my new camera to my pc... but all i get from the pc is "No device available" :( My platform: Dell Dimension 8250, 2,80 GHz, 2,78GHz and 512 MB RAM Windows XP Professional version 2002, Servicepack 2 I have automated updates for Windows. 128MB DDR ATI Radeon 9800 pro I know I may be in the lower field of system requirement... But I accept a slow workflow. For the moment I just want to capture and start editing. Recommended for connecton to pc is i.Link 4pin to 4pin. I have an IEEE 1394 firewire with 4 pin to 6 pin (computer).... Is this why my pc do not find the cam? I have tried Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 (with the last HDV plugin, wich I did not get to work) and Sony Vegas 6.0 but none of them can connect/find to the cam... I have not recorded in HDV format, only in DVCAM, and will stay in this format for a while. I THINK I have set all menus right... The Out/In Rec format etc... Please someone out there... Help, and guide me through my newbie problems... I have searched the net for hours looking for a UP-AND-GO tutorial for dummies, but I can not find anything... And if I find something, it only makes me more confused because it allways are to much information that I do not need, and it takes hours to read.... Would have loved a link or a post with a "checklist" so I easily can start working. Please ask for further information about my settings both on the computer and the cam, as I may somewhere in the "setting-jungle" forget to set the right parameters somewhere. With hopes Bjorn