Firewire Camcorder not recognized.

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Hi,

I have an old Mini DV Camcorder of mine, with many many videos of friends and family. I want to "digitalize" them and store them as mp4`s on my computer.

 

So i bought a Firewire PCI-E card and tried capturing the videos through Firewire. However Windows Device Manager and Premiere Pro will not recognize my Camcorder. In Premiere it just says "Capture Device Offline". Even regardless of the DV or HDV setting. I know there are a lot of problems and solutions out there regarding Firwire and capturing video thorugh it. But nothing worked for me so far.

 

I updated the Standard Driver to the 2013 Legancy one. I tried different Firwire Cables (800 to 800 and 800 to 400) and I tried restarting my PC and reslotting my PCI-E card several times. But so far nothing worked for me. There isnt even a "ding" sound when plugging the cable into my PC  I made sure the Camcorder is in VTR mode and the Tape is playing back inside the Camcorder just fine. 

 

I have no idea what could be causing this and my only guess right now would be that the Firewire Port on my Camcorder is dead (Which is very unlikely given that the Camcorder is in great shape and the port was protected by a flap)

So if there is anything i could have missed, or if you guys know any solution, i would really appreciate it  The Tapes really mean a lot to me.

 

Greetings, David

 

Sorry for my bad grammar and so forth, just trying