I'm not sure about your 1st problem (might be a driver problem). Check
Sony's, Microsoft, your firewire cards site and the video edit softwares
site.  My camera is the DCR-TRV510 (Digital 8).  I use Pinnacle Systems
"Studio DV".  Works great.  It has a capture setting that stops the camera
after so many minutes (I think the default was 20 minutes).  I set it to 60
minutes.

Cheers, Brian


"webster" <triplejboy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> i am having trouble capturing video off my mini dv camera with a 1394
card.
> When i first plug it in after a boot it works fine but if i try to access
it
> a second time the computer does not see the video camera. i have used
> numerous video capturing programs but i get the same result for each. Also
> if i start capturing video from the camera and about 20 mins into the
> recording the recording stops (this it not a power problem, the cam is
> plugged into the mains power). Im not sure whether its the 1394 card or if
> its my video camera.
> i am using...
> Windows xp
> Sony DCR-TRV33E mini DV camera
> Sunix PCI 1394 Card FW3000SC
> the supplied cable that came with the firewire card
>
> Thanks
> Matt
>
>