I have a problem connecting my camcorder to my computer?

Question

when i connect my ieee (firewire) cable to my computer and my camcorder, nothing happens. i opened up windows movie maker and clicked on import/ from digital video camera and says that no camcorder can be found.by the way, my camcorder is a panasonic PV-GS39 and uses a minidv cassete. please help!

Answer 1

You may need to update your drivers!! Try the Panasonic support site for your camera model for the drivers and peruse the FAQ's while your there.

Answer 2

when you are on the player on the camcorder, go into the menu, and search through it to find a option to turn the Firewire link on in the camcorder.

Answer 3

you're right...PV-GS39 is a miniDV vcam w/c should be firewire- connected to a pc to capture (copy) video from tape using a video editing app like wmm.

However, you chose  wmm 'IMPORT' which applies only to files (video/ music/ voice) , whereas, on tape is a video stream when on playback.

Try instead to click on CAPTURE from video device to capture video stream while the vcam is on playback. wmm shud contol the vcam operations.