pc not recognizing external sound card usb

You made need to specifically state DV IN on your one (via the menu) and DV OUT on the other (the actual menu item names may be different). Set yours to be in VTR mode and the other to be in camera mode. Try connecting your cam to your brother-in-law's via FireWire. To be dropping a lot frames either points to a hardware issue with the FireWire or you are trying to capture to a heavily fragmented hard drive - e.g., the one with the OS on. DV capture doesn't require much from the PC. I have a lot of Sony DV equipment and I hot-swap pieces all the time.Īnyway, the fact that your brother-in-law's cam works but poorly suggests to me that you might still have an issue with your PC's interface. Whenever I read a post about a possible fried port, it's usually Panasonic and rarely Sony. My friend says that at the computer store I can find a usb adapter that plugs into my laptop that has the red,white,yellow video/audio ports on it. I will be getting a dvd recorder soon and will plug the camcorder directly to the dvd recorder and see how clear that is (although I won't be editing it that way). It is not near as clear as firewire though. This way I can at least get my video onto my computer. The way it works is I use the plug for the av out on the camcorder to the cap wiz device (the red,white,yellow ports) then from the cap wiz to the computer via usb 2.0.

I am convinced now that something is wrong with my panasonic's dv/firewire port, therefore I will use my capture wiz device by ADStech Instant DVD 2.0( the same device I use to transfer analog to my pc) to take my video off my mini dv camcorder.

I have now tested my new firewire cable using my brother-in-law's sony mini dv cam on my computer and it worked fine (although a lot of dropped frames, which is probably due to my video software or too many things running in background). Yes I think you are right with the order to do the firewire transfer.

Pc not recognizing external sound card usb