Upload MiniDV video hangs on Vista Ultimate

I have a new Dell latitude D630, 2MB RAM, Intel T7300 processor, 128MB NVIDIA
Quadro NVS 135M- should be plenty fast. My video camera is a Canon ZR60,
using 4pin-4pin 1394 cable. When I plug in camera, vista recognizes it and
launches CaptureWizard to upload video. I have tried 2 of the 3 options: WMV
format as a single file, limited to 5-10 minutes, and as WMV broken up into
separate files at each break in video. On both settings, after a while, the
CaptureWizard hangs up, while the camera continues to play back. Computer is
completely frozen and I must do a hard reboot. This has happened 6-7 times.
I fast-forwarded a bit to see if the problem was a faulty section of the
video, but got the same results. It seemed to freeze at different points in
the video, so I could not see a pattern. I have not tried uploading as AVI,
and I have not tried disabling AERO interface.

Canon website says my camera is fully compatible with Vista. I have no canon
software installed - just using native Windows vista to upload. All updates
are installed. Driver says it is working correctly. I am using driver version
6.0.6000.16386. Any ideas on how to get this video uploaded would be
appreciated.

Anything that turns itself on or does work with teh pc may stop the capture,
such as firewall blocking access, antivirus doing a check, screensaver etc.
These sorts of things and others are tackled here
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutor...PcForVideo.htm



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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"Thomas" <Thomas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a new Dell latitude D630, 2MB RAM, Intel T7300 processor, 128MB
>NVIDIA
> Quadro NVS 135M- should be plenty fast. My video camera is a Canon ZR60,
> using 4pin-4pin 1394 cable. When I plug in camera, vista recognizes it and
> launches CaptureWizard to upload video. I have tried 2 of the 3 options:
> WMV
> format as a single file, limited to 5-10 minutes, and as WMV broken up
> into
> separate files at each break in video. On both settings, after a while,
> the
> CaptureWizard hangs up, while the camera continues to play back. Computer
> is
> completely frozen and I must do a hard reboot. This has happened 6-7
> times.
> I fast-forwarded a bit to see if the problem was a faulty section of the
> video, but got the same results. It seemed to freeze at different points
> in
> the video, so I could not see a pattern. I have not tried uploading as
> AVI,
> and I have not tried disabling AERO interface.
>
> Canon website says my camera is fully compatible with Vista. I have no
> canon
> software installed - just using native Windows vista to upload. All
> updates
> are installed. Driver says it is working correctly. I am using driver
> version
> 6.0.6000.16386. Any ideas on how to get this video uploaded would be
> appreciated.