[Fish-N-Fool]

Hi all newbee here. I NEEEEEEEED HELP!!!
I bought a referbished Canon ZR65MC off Ebay. Works great and it takes gr8 pixs but I have not been able to figure out how to down load the digital video to my computer. I found out it needed a firewire cable so I got one (IEEE 1394 4-Pin Male/6-Pin Male FireWire Cable) and still nothing. Do I need somekind of software so the computer can find the camcorder?
I'm trying to use the windows movie maker and it says it can not find any
video device.
My puter is an HP Pentium 4 with about a 3.2 Gig prosesser and about 1 gig of ram and runs XP.

[kiwiguy]

Canon cameras do tend to be fussy, I think you will need to get the original Canon software.

[antimoth]

I've owned two Canon DV cameras. Neither came with Canon software for video. Anything with firewire support worked, including Windows Movie Maker, winDV, DVIO, and all the commercial video editors.

If you don't already have it, you might download the owners manual from Canon, just to make sure that your camera doesn't need a few settings enabled. For example, on my ZR85, one could set the DV port as either an input or am output.

When you plug the camera firewire cable into the PC, it is in "play" mode, and XP does that musical thunk that indicates it has new connection? If not, there's a problem. Port not enabled. Bad cable. Bad camera.

I'm on my second Canon because the firewire port on the forst one got fired. User error. It happens.

[johnebadbak]

DV Messenger, have a look at this canon software.May help