Posted by nappy on 12/06/07 18:06

tough one.. sounds like a hardware problem at first. I thought the dac100
was completely compatible.
your cable is good because you use it to capture from the camcorder..
If the dac100 is still functionally good and its hardware interface is not
bad then it should work..
Hard to figure how it may have been fried if it hasn't been used.
nonetheless there could be a failed part in ght DAC.

Have you tried the DAC on another machine?

Is premiere set to recognize the DAC100 or set as generic firewire device?
Perhaps there is something in there you can fiddle with..





"ritpg" <ritpg@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Three years ago I bought a DAC-100 external video capture device to
> mate (firewire) with a then 3 year old Dell desktop running XP Pro
> for
> the purpose of digitizing old VHS tapes. I must say the DAC-100
> worked quite well (virtually no dropped frames) although the
> Cyberlink
> PowerDirector software was so painful to use I stopped before I could
> finish capturing and editing all the tapes. I recently purchased a
> Systemax Intel quad (Q6600) desktop running XP Pro and a copy of
> Adobe
> Premier Elements 3.0. I've been using this new system to capture
> video from my DV camcorder with pretty good success. When I decided
> to connect the DAC-100 to the new system to resume capturing the old
> VHS video, the results were extremely poor. The PC kept losing and
> regaining the DAC-100 and when it could maintain the connection the
> video capture was pathetic (more than half the frames were getting
> dropped). I expermented with the dip switches in the back of the DAC
> with no improvement and ended up restoring the original settings (for
> XP). I'm wondering if my new PC is too high powered for the DAC or
> is
> there a setting somewhere I need to fix. I see that the DAC-100 has
> been replaced by a DAC-200 whose improvments have nothing to do with
> new OSs or higher powered PCs so I'm not inclined to buy that newer
> model.
> If anyone has any ideas as to what could be causing my problem, I
> sure
> would appreciate hearing them. I hate to spend another $200 for a
> new
> video capture device when there's no way to know if will work any
> better with this new PC.
> Thanks.
> Terry

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