Re: Here's what I have, what do I need?

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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:33:03 -0800, "Clueless Julie"
<CluelessJulie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>That all sounds great, Tony and I hope your right. But if you saw my earlier
>post (Blue screen, no movie) when I tried to capture w/ the USB there was no
>preview. I mean it seemed to be working except there was no picture or
>sound. It captured a blue screen. I was able to save it on my desktop, but
>again... blue screen (no sound or picture). A couple times I got that
>familiar message about it already being in use, or whatever. I am just
>trying to figure out if it is because I wasn't using a firewire. I can do it
>w/ live recording. But not from a tape. I just don't know what I am doing
>wrong.

I can't really help, but I can point out some things for you to check.
Based on personal experience I can tell you that a Firewire or USB
cable, or the port they plug into, can be present but not be working.

"Devices" tells you that you have a USB port or a Firewire port.
Devices does not tell you if they work. I solved one problem by
plugging in my USB cable into a different USB port. I solved another
problem by replacing the Firewire card. I haven't had a bad cable,
but I recognize that I could. It could even be a matter of a chunk of
lint in the connection.

Quite often, when I run into a problem from an unknown source, I clear
the temp files, defrag the system, change the cables from one port to
another, and re-boot. It's amazing how many times that solves the
problem.

Why would you capture to desktop? The normal, default, destination
for capture is "My Videos". I don't know why. If the video is ending
up on desktop, you've set something. You may have set something
incorrectly.




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Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL
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