I have installed MC 3.0 under Vista 64 Ultimate. Installation went flawlessly, and MC could be started and shows currrent project well.

I tried to capture and found, that the firewire input is not recognized. I tried two cases, one where I use the direct connect to COM2. I can fullycontrol the deck, however, if I select the video channel, I get the error message: "No signals present". In a second trial, I configured the deck control via firewire/OHCI. The capture tool always shows "No deck connected". I repeated this test with my Camcorder JVC GY-HD200 and got the same problem. The Windows device manager shows the correct device in both cases (JVC BR-HD50 and JVC GY-HD200). BTW Media Composer runs with the same firewire port under Windows XP/32 without problems.

 Did you open your deck configuration tools and add your firewire port, then try an autoconfigure?  If you just reinstalled the software, you may need to tell Avid what ports to be looking at for decks.

Michael.

Joachim Claus:

I have installed MC 3.0 under Vista 64 Ultimate. Installation went flawlessly, and MC could be started and shows currrent project well.

I tried to capture and found, that the firewire input is not recognized. I tried two cases, one where I use the direct connect to COM2. I can fullycontrol the deck, however, if I select the video channel, I get the error message: "No signals present". In a second trial, I configured the deck control via firewire/OHCI. The capture tool always shows "No deck connected". I repeated this test with my Camcorder JVC GY-HD200 and got the same problem. The Windows device manager shows the correct device in both cases (JVC BR-HD50 and JVC GY-HD200). BTW Media Composer runs with the same firewire port under Windows XP/32 without problems.

 I installed MC3 on Vista 64 ultimate and the install went fine.  (I know that Vista Ultimate 64 is not really supported by MC3) but when I launch MC3 loads and just as its about to run it crashes.

I have disabled Vista media center because I have heard that can cause some conflicts
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/02/23/how-to-disable-uninstall-and-remove-windows-media-center-in-vista/

Do you have any tips I may have missed?
I have 8gb of ram and an Nvidia 8800GT card.
Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU  E5462  @ 2.80GHz, 2800 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processors

Jim