Pinnacle Studio 7 won’t output finished movie back to Panasonic MX8 camcorder
 

I’ve captured raw DV clips from the camcorder, edited them, rendered them but can’t get them back to the camcorder. The camcorder screen shows ‘pause’ with a still of the first clip – it then reads ‘play’ and the image immediately pixellates to black with the editing program player window showing elapsed time running at about ¼ real time.
I don’t think it’s the program (Studio 7 ver. 15.1.0) as the same effect is there with movie maker 2 and Ulead video studio. The camcorder (Pansasonic MX8) and firewire lead will accept clips from an eMac.

I run Studio 7 fresh from start up, no wallpaper, no screen saver, no background programs, no power off schemes, resolution set at 1024 x 768, colour 16 bit. I’ve updated DirectX, and display (Nvidia Geforce2 MX) drivers. Mobo and bios drivers are the latest. I’ve downloaded the MS patch for Panasonic devices.

What do I do next? How can I cure the problem?

PC set up details:
OS – XP ver. 5.1.2600
CPU – athlon XP 133
Mobo Kinetiz -7E-A (chipset VIA 82C305 rev3)
RAM – 256K
Video card – Nvidia Geforce2 MX
Video capture device - legacy
Firewire card is OHCI compliant

Camcorder Panasonic MX8 – UK (PAL) version

Have you checked to see if the MX8 has it's DV-in disabled? Just a thought.

done it. it works. looks like being an incompatible firewire card