Re: Vegas 6 Crashes while doing HDV capture from FX1 - any ideas?

...where do you guys get this stuff...

um... that's whats worked for me and everyone I've heard of. It's very important that you follow the steps in the post referenced above very carefully. Yes, this should work fine on your system with XP SP2.

Does it connect up for standard mini-DV? You should check this first, to make sure that you actually have good firewire connectivity, that is, that your camera fw port is working, you have a good cable, and your pc fw card/port is working.

Here are some expanded driver instructions.

1. Plug in camera, then turn it on.
2. Go to Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager
3. Locate AVC/Subunit in the Device Manager
4. Right click, choose Properties
5. Choose Update Driver, and DO NOT let Windows go searching on Windows Update. Choose "not this time"
6. Next, choose "install from a list or specific location.
7. Next, choose "don't search, I will choose the driver to install".
8. Next, uncheck "show compatible hardware"

NOW, you should be seeing the pick list.

9. Browse to Sound, Video, Game Controllers to find the driver
10. Locate Sony in the list of Sound, Video, Game Controllers
11. Open the first Sony in the list, and select the DVHS driver as the driver for your camera. (there will probably be 3 sony entries, look for the DVHS driver)
12. next, finish, etc. Then give it a try with the Vegas 6.0c internal capture utility.

If this doesn't work and you've confirmed that your camera FW, FW cable and PC FW all work, you're probably on to reinstall of Vegas and possibly Sony tech support.