Firewire card help?

Question

I have bought a Firewire card (PCI card) and a Firewire cable. The PCI card fitted in my computer fine and the cable fits into it and my Sony DCR-HC27E Mini DV camcorder. It comes up on my computer. The reason I bought a Firewire card was to put movies from my camcorder onto the computer but I only see that it lets me record video with the camcorder connected to the computer. My computer is Windows XP. Does anyone know how I can get video from my camcorder to my computer?

Answer 1

Make sure your videocamera is in playback mode.

Answer 2

You need to give some more details, you should be able to on windows movie maker,or any other program like Nero, I have a firewire and Sony camcorder as well, did you install the software?

Answer 3

Sounds like Windows thinks it's a webcam - read your camcorder manual and your capture software's help for instructions on how to capture from miniDV.