Are most DV camcorders recognized by today's Windows XP OS?
 

My question is depending on Windows XP Home or windows XP Professional, are most DV/digital camcorders recognized by the operating system today? What factors affect this? I am thinking about maybe perhaps the revision of the camcorder itself (newer production units, say like a camera that came out in 1999 before WinXP came out and you buy one that came out in 2002 maybe), Windows XP service packs, IEEE 1394 port revisions (based on revision of chipset/motherboard you have perhaps?)

Hi
I have a Panasonic DA1, circa 1999, its recognised by XP home & XP Professional, in 3 different machines, all of which have had various "upgrades" graphics cards etc.

No problems so far apart from the fact it was never manufactured dv in, and is used as a playback deck mostly.
Captures from it are RT.X100 or Pyro firewire.

Best Wishes.

Peter.

David,

My GL2 was recognized immediately via Firewire by XP Pro with no problems at all.

Basically it doesn't matter unless you want your OS to do
something with you camera (can't think of why you would want
or need that).

An NLE talks directly with the camera bascially. The OS is just
there to provide support for this. So it must recognize your
firewire card and to get best results make sure the card is OHCI
compliant (I think almost any simple firewire card is these days).

The question should be if your NLE can work with the camera.
I've not heard of much problems in that regard.

Keep in mind that most NLE's have "problems" with the new
24p or HDV camera's though.

The newer OSes will let you know that you plugged in a DV
camera. The older ones will not, but should work just as fine.

"Basically it doesn't matter unless you want your OS to do
something with you camera (can't think of why you would want
or need that)."

Rob, whatcha mean when you say "want your OS to do something with the camera" ?

Well, why do you want your OS to recognize your camera? I'm
thinking you want your NLE to recognize it.

The only reason you want your OS to recognize is if you want
your OS to do something with it. Perhaps see the memory card
for example if it has that (not saying this will work). I won't know
what other thing you would want to do with it. I was merely
trying to show how it works.

Once you plug in and turn on your camera, you can go into "My Computer" and see the icon for it. Double-click, and voila! Capture still images from tape, or live from the camera, without opening your NLE software.

A little timesaver if you just want one measly shot, no?