Vista and Sony HC7

[scubamickey]

Has anyone who is running Vista had any problems downloading footage from the HC7? I'm thinking about upgrading since I have the disk but I heard that Vista was shipped without a lot (or all) of the Sony drivers. I have the driver on the CD that came with the camcorder, but I'm wondering now if there are any other issues--given that this is Microsloth afterall.

 

[drbill]

From what I've heard from IT professionals and others, I have no plans to "upgrade" to Vista. I've had no problems using Win XP (at least not any related to the OS).

 

[DiveBandit]

I know this is an old thread, but I recently ran into the same problem. Nobody is really sure (or admitting they know) why, but Vista has big problems with firewire and Sony camcorders. I tried everything, then just built a box with XP that I use to capture video. I have a Sony TRV33, and use Adobe Premiere pro.

 

[Okidiver]

Yeah, most of the tech-dweebs pushing Vista on us shopping for new computers give me the "it should work..." line when asking about compatability problems everybody else seems to be having with it... Some guys say get last year's model with XP and wait for the brave to finish beta testing it...
Alternatively, is there a dual boot feature you could use? I believe Vaio laptops have that capability..or is it built into Vista?
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I know this is an old thread, but I recently ran into the same problem. Nobody is really sure (or admitting they know) why, but Vista has big problems with firewire and Sony camcorders. I tried everything, then just built a box with XP that I use to capture video. I have a Sony TRV33, and use Adobe Premiere pro.

 

[scubamickey]

I upgraded from XP and I have a dual boot option--haven't used it though.

 

[DiveBandit]

I'm wondering if the Vista SP1 that microsoft is getting ready to release will fix this issue.

 

[drbill]

I continue to hear of problems with Vista so I'm going to remain happy with XP. I remember being sent a pre-release version of Windows 1.0 years ago. I loaded and tried it... then kept using DOS until Windows 3.0 came out. I think I'll wait for Vista 3.0, too.

 

[JeffG]

I continue to hear of problems with Vista so I'm going to remain happy with XP. I remember being sent a pre-release version of Windows 1.0 years ago. I loaded and tried it... then kept using DOS until Windows 3.0 came out. I think I'll wait for Vista 3.0, too.

Well, I have had no probelms with Vista and my Sony VX1000. My problems have been the DVD burner. It was working and then it was magically upgraded to not work.

Ahhhh...I love computers.

 

[SparticleBrane]

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