Fred, I've never tried to use Cinelerra for recording, only editing. I used dvgrab to get clips from a DV tape in a Canon Optura camera. This camera also connects to the computer via firewire, and dvgrab can start and stop the camera through the bidirectional firewire interface.
If Cinelerra freezes on you, you can go to a root-level terminal window, type ps -aux | more and keep hitting enter until you see the Cinelerra process listed. Take note of its PID (process ID number), then hit enter some more until "more" finishes and you get back to the # prompt. Then type kill xxxx And hit enter, where xxxx is the PID of the Cinelerra process. This will terminate Cinelerra immediately, without your having to shut down your system. Michael Evans -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fred Williams Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 3:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [CinCVS] Trying to record from MiniDV camera. Hello People, I am running cinelerra on Ubuntu Linux with a Core 2 Duo processor and 2 Gigabytes of memory. I have it installed and was able to play with some video files (.avi) from my "still" camera the other day. Now I need to load some Mini DV tapes for editing so today I bought a JVC GR-D750U camera and a Firewire PCI card. Unfortunately when I try to record from the camera there seems to be no connection although all the wires are connected. When I choose File-->Record, I get the Cinelerra Recording box, but then when I click on the red button the window freezes and nothing gets recorded. The camera is playing the tape, but nothing comes through and I can't stop the recording in Cinelerra...It won't close the window while it is recording and it's not recording anything. So far the only way I can close cinelerra is to log out, or shut down the system. The camera manual says that it won't download the date and time info to the computer anyway. Should I take the camera back? -- Regards, Fred Williams _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
