Following up on a previous posting I have a Sony TRV900 and Pinanacle's DV300. I am using Premiere 5.1 and version 1.6 of the drivers.
I can (only 2 days of using it) do anything that involves Video Capture and Video Editing. However I cannot save anything back to the TRV900.
The problem is that the camera records the video sent back as if looking through a multi-coloured stensil. Pretty useless..
I know that I've read of others with this problem before, but I now don't seem to be able to locate the answers that were given at the time.
I was asked to install a new version of 1394.VXD when the Miro 300 installed. However this just crashes Windows98 at startup.
Can anyone out there please help..?
With the TRV900 Sony introduced new level of I-Link. Looks like Pinnacle still does not have it correct.
John Ferrick
Success (I hope!)
I hope that a day of my time will be useful to others who may have this camera / editing system combination.
The solution is down to getting the latest "WN1394" driver working. If you use the old one then you will never be able to write anything back to the TRV900. I suspect that this also applies to many other new videocameras.
The root of the problem was that my DV300 card wanted to use IRQ9, and would not let itself be changed to anything else.
I removed every card in my system, 1-by-1, including the SCSI functionality of the DV300 itself. However this did not help.
I then removed the DV300 card itself. Restarted Windows 98 and then shutdown. I then re-installed the DV300. Still nothing worked, but now the DV300 had decided to use IRQ10, no other devices were using this interupt. DVTools still didn't work, but now I got different errors.
I then removed DVTools and 1394 driver and re-installed everything. Hey presto, for the first time EVERYTHING seems to work. I compiled a VERY short movie, including a transition and then exported it to the TRV900. I even re-booted the PC a few times to make sure that it wasn't a fluke.
Finally I re-installed all the cards that I previously removed. Everything still appears to work fine.
As said above I hope that this solid days work will be of use to a few others out there. Maybe I'll even prevent a few DV300's from being launched through open windows...?
Andy