The most likely culprit is using a network drive over a peer-to-peer network. If it is using the legacy driver, that leaves three possible culprits: (a) your firewire cable (b) your laptop's firewire port or (c) using the network drive for capture (assuming that it has worked well in the past.) Have you checked the device manager yet? Are you sure that your laptop's firewire controller is using the 'legacy' driver? This should have been the first thing you checked. They have recommended a clean OS re-install for some unfortunate souls who were having problems after installing these packs.Īs I said, HDV Split will capture under Win 7 from an XHA1 without needing ffdshow, so ignore the error messages. Harm Milaard and others have numbers of postings that warn Adobe users to avoid installing those packs.

Even worse is getting it with one of the free 'Codec Packs' (such as K-Lite and 'Commmunity Codec Pack'). Also, once installed, ffdshow seems to be extremely difficult to remove completely from your computer.

There are numbers of postings in the Adobe Users Forums about problems that ffdshow causes with CS5 under Vista 64 and Win 7. Let me emphasize this: do not download and install ffdshow. HDV Split will capture from the XHA1, anyway. When I start HDV Split, the comment box tells me I have an error and need to install 'ffdshow' and also tells me that 'audio is off' (or something like that.) On my computer, Windows has a nasty habit of secretly upgrading/resetting to a different and 'better' driver which will not work for tape captures and which will not talk to my MRC tapeless recording units.)Ī word of caution about testing HDV Split under Windows 7. Be sure that the driver for the firewire controller is the one with 'legacy' in the name. (Go into Device Manager and check the driver for the firewire controller - the previous discussions of capture problems all say absolutely that this is the first thing you should check with capture problems under Win 7. Same thing is true for me under Win 7 and CS5. HDV Split fixed that.īut, when CS3 and Vegas could not capture from the XH, neither could HDV Split. The problem I had with CS3's capture utility was that the XH audio came in 15 to 20 frames out of sync behind the video when I had shot HDV. I can vouch for HDV Split's improved capture quality over at least CS3. HDV Split might help with your issues with the quality of capture, but I suspect it will not help with the problem of captures that either will not start or which quit randomly.

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