• Movie Edit Now

  8 answers, most recent on 3/25/2025

  Getting Firewire to work on an old laptop fitted with a FireWire socke
  I am trying to help a frield who has 18 DV tapes to be got from analogue to digital. She recently ordered a new PC with Windows 11 and forgot to ask for a FIREWIRE port to be installed. It unfortunatelty cannot be added now. I have a 16 year old
• Movie Edit Now

  8 answers, most recent on 3/25/2025

  RE: Getting Firewire to work on an old laptop fitted with a FireWire socke
  @AnnTH Hi I would like to add a cautionary warning:- On Amazon and many other sites you will find many cables which claim to enable Firewire devices to be connected to a USB port. These are not true converters, they are adapters and will not work
• Video Pro X

  6 answers, most recent on 8/7/2025

  Problem download video using FIREWIRE
  Messages come and I don't know what to do.
• Movie Studio

  One answer, on 12/12/2024

  [Closed] Capture is not working
  I am using Movie Studio 13.0 Platinum; serial number removed by Moderator in Windows 11. My camcorder is a DCR-TRV340. I am using a Toshiba VCR with composite connections to a hub then to the camcorder. Then the Firewire connection to a Firewire
• Video Pro X

  6 answers, most recent on 8/7/2025

  RE: Problem download video using FIREWIRE
  Hello Rob, thank you for your input. I think Magix is activated. I just try to download video from hard disk, make short edit and safe as MPEG-2. Everything is working. I think there is problem with connection with my firewire card. I did not use it
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 8/8/2024

  Will not record Video from Camcorder via FireWire
  Running trial version of VS 2025 but it will not record or receive Video from my Camcorder via FireWire. It knows the camera is there as I can stop and start it from the on screen display, but no Video appears in the preview screen. I am running
• Movie Studio

  16 answers, most recent on 12/23/2025

  RE: No video only sound
  Hi Thanks for all interest I have unticked the "input AVI import format" and tried a new download with no success. There are still black window and the sound is OK. I can open the avi file in VLC media player with both video and sound, I also tried
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  9 answers, most recent on 4/22/2025

  RE: Videowandler 2 issues...
  I can't find such a cable, and this is indeed an old camcorder. I don't have a firewire port on my PC either, and those firewire cards for the motherboard seem really expensive. I have a USB-C connector, however. I don't know much about how well
• Movie Edit Now

  8 answers, most recent on 3/25/2025

  RE: Getting Firewire to work on an old laptop fitted with a FireWire socke
  Thank you John EB for your concern. I have no intention of buying any cables from Amazon. I hate Amazon and have even signed partitions against them as they have had a poor record of safety in Britain in some of their factories. If I do need
• Movie Edit Now

  8 answers, most recent on 3/25/2025

  RE: Getting Firewire to work on an old laptop fitted with a FireWire socke
  Thank you for your reply. My friends camera is a Sony DCR-HC30E. I have had a look at your notes on WinDV and Scenalyzer and screen grabbed quite a few pages in case she wants to try your suggestions but I am not sure if she could cope with another
• Video Pro X

  6 answers, most recent on 8/7/2025

  RE: Problem download video using FIREWIRE
  @zdenekrsa I regularly use Firewire to download video from a range of digital video cameras but I have never seen either of those error messages. I assume you are trying to use the DV to MPEG icon option on the Capture screen. Is that correct? If
• Video Pro X

  21 answers, most recent on 2/20/2024

  RE: MAGIX Video easy 5 HD
  @CubeAce Ray, with all due respect, enough, please. Windows, from 8 on, still supports Firewire and to message otherwise ["Firewire support was officially dropped from Windows 10 onwards"] is unnecessary scaremongering. I'm not going to say any more
• Video Easy

  7 answers, most recent on 9/10/2023

  RE: [Solved] Converting Sony DV videos to laptop windows
  @clarisse-s Gday. Can you give us the model number of your Sony camcorder (it will be on the bottom) and the model number of your laptop and version number of Windows you have. Do you already have the Magix Video Easy/Rescue Your Videotapes program
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  9 answers, most recent on 4/22/2025

  RE: Videowandler 2 issues...
  @Sami-Pekonmki My comments are based on this manual. Sami, do you by any chance, have a DV/Firewire port on your computer? That camcorder appears to be miniDV and the best transfer is via Firewire. Regarding the video signal, you would get better
• Video Pro X

  21 answers, most recent on 2/20/2024

  RE: MAGIX Video easy 5 HD
  @Johnny-Hansen Hi We need more information to help diagnose the issue(s) you are having: The specification of your computer system including Windows version and program version, see this topic for what is required and please quote processor and
• Movie Studio

  69 answers, most recent on 8/10/2025

  RE: Unable to import MKV files into Video deluxe 2026 Plus, Windows 10
  @Gra_Ham @johnebaker A quick DV capture from a Video8 tape of 1993 I just did. Captured via Firewire by Magix Video Deluxe 2026. No processing except movie frame rate set to 50fps to take advantage of the deinterlacing process of VDL. Please excuse
• Video Pro X

  21 answers, most recent on 2/20/2024

  RE: MAGIX Video easy 5 HD
  @johnebaker I don't believe there are such things as 32bit and 64bit Firewire devices. There are different Firewire drivers for 32 or 64 bit Win8/8.1 (Ray's link) but there are no separate legacy drivers for Win 10, and Win 11 (64 bit only, of
• Video Pro X

  21 answers, most recent on 2/20/2024

  RE: MAGIX Video easy 5 HD
  @CubeAce Firewire support was officially dropped from Windows 10 onwards. Ray, could you show a statement from MS to that effect please.
• Video Pro X

  21 answers, most recent on 2/20/2024

  RE: MAGIX Video easy 5 HD
  @CubeAce Ray, There are no "manufacturer's" Firewire drivers. I suspect that Dell was sending out the MS Legacy driver for users to install on their Dell "optimised Windows" PC. There is currently only two FW drivers, both Microsoft-supplied: the
• Video Pro X

  21 answers, most recent on 2/20/2024

  RE: MAGIX Video easy 5 HD
  @AAProds Hi Al. Firewire support was officially dropped from Windows 10 onwards. There are a few 'fixes' to be found on the internet. Ray.
• Video Easy

  6 answers, most recent on 9/9/2023

  RE: Misleading "DV Processing" Claim?
  @SP. Yes, that's where this advert is misleading: for a pure DV transfer, you need Firewire, which this product doesn't have. Those Canopus boxes required a Firewire port on the computer.
• Video Pro X

  21 answers, most recent on 2/20/2024

  RE: MAGIX Video easy 5 HD
  @AAProds Hi Al. OK. But what about this Microsoft support article? Ray.
• Video Easy

  6 answers, most recent on 9/9/2023

  RE: Misleading "DV Processing" Claim?
  @SP. Not sure if there are any DV capture cards today. I recently installed a cheapie from Amazon and it goes like a champion on Win 11. If you have more than a few DV tapes, it's definitely worthwhile sticking one of these in your machine.
• Video Easy

  7 answers, most recent on 9/10/2023

  RE: Converting Sony DV videos to laptop windows
  @johnebaker John, no, ilink is a Sony name for Firewire. A camera ilink ie Firewire connector/socket is this: and plugs: