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860802 2010-02-23 02:41:00 I have a Canon MVX200i DV Movie camera. It uses mini digital tapes to record video onto. It's about 3 years old.

It worked fine with XP. I am sure that I also used it with Vista. With the right software the computer controls the camera and downloads movies to my hard disk.

I cannot get it to work with Windows 7. When I have it connected to the computer by hotwire I get a sound when I either turn the camera on or off. The computer acknowledges that the camera is there.

I use Serif MoviePlus 5 and have tried Windows Live Movie Maker. Neither program shows my camera in the Capture dialogue box.

I have gone to the Canon web site looking for a driver with no luck.

I would appreciate any suggestions.
Bobh (5192)
860803 2010-02-23 02:48:00 Does the camera show up as a drive in Windows explorer? Sweep (90)
860804 2010-02-23 03:08:00 Looks like it has firewire. Buy a firewire PCI card. Or is that what you mean by hotwire? Speedy Gonzales (78)
860805 2010-02-23 03:46:00 I would just try the Vista drivers

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SolMiester (139)
860806 2010-02-23 04:07:00 Sorry I did mean firewire not hotwire .

I now have had some success and have downloaded the movie using Windows Live Movie Maker .

The camera does not show up on Windows Explorer . This caused me to have another look in Device Manager . I found the camera under Imaging Devices . This time the driver update button was able to be pressed . Windows determined that the driver software was up to date .

I rebooted the computer and I now get 'Microsoft DV Camera and VCR' in the dialogue box (I do have an MS Lifecam as well) .

Serif MoviePlus X3 (not 5) displayed no preview with a message 'Failed to Initialize Capture' . I might bring this problem up on the Serif forum .

I then tried Windows Live Movie Maker and happily it succeeded in the video capture .

Many thanks
Bobh (5192)
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