Hi everyone!

trouble once more..

I'm using Avid Xpress DV on my PC and I can't get a signal of my Cam with Firewire.

Tried to configure my deck about 10000 times, rebooted everything again and again, installed DVBuffers, switched off my firewall, reinstalled drivers for my firewire-card...

nothing helped.

Some days ago, I tried it with another Cam, and it worked (same type) - temporarily. Then it stopped working. Tested the Cam on a Mac (where the same Avid system is running) - and it didn't work either. I thought it's just the camera gone bad - tried it with the new one. It worked. Worked with the mac, with avid, with my windows. But my Avid keeps telling my: no input signal. I'm confused - it worked before, and now I can't get an input signal anymore. Desperate.

Any help? I'd really appreciate it!!

Hope u understood everything and sorry for my English!

Kerstin

Sorry, forgot:

The cam I'm using is a Sony DCR-VX 9000 E, it's 9 years old.

The Mac (where I tested it before), is a Dual 2.5 GHz Power PC G5, Mac OS X 10.4.10 (or 10.4.11, not sure about that)

The PC has an AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ 1,84 GHz, 1,50 GB RAM

The firewirecontroler has the VIA-Chip VT6306

Avid (on both systems) is Xpress DV 4.8

Greetings

Kerstin

I've had the same issues and tried same many things. Same version XDV. Have used different input devices, usually a Sony PD150 camera which is even recognized on list of devices. Sometimes it's recognized, sometimes not. Sometimes one firewire port picks it up. Very puzzling. All I can wonder is if Avid software is not compatible with AMD brand processor somehow which I also have.

I'm thinking about switching to MAC and Final Cut express.

Kerstin, one of your problems very well could be that your firewire card has a VIA chipset. If I were you, I would start by replacing/installing a FW card that has the Avid certified Texas Instrument chipset.