Connecting a PDW-330 to Windows 7 Abode Premiere Pro 4 via Firewire

As a preamble, may I say I have no problems connecting and ingesting
from the PDW-F330 with the Mac, FCP system we have.
-The camera menu is set to FAM.

However, when I bring the camera over to the Vista machine (64 bit, 8 G Ram)
and connect the camera via the firewire connection- there is no evidence of
any connection whatsoever.
-Windows does not try to install new devices
-nothing shows up in My Computer
-Adobe Premiere Pro 4 (PP4) does not see any connections in its browser.

As a scientific control, I know that the F330 connects to the Mac,
but does not connect to the Windows PP4 machine - hopefully
ruling out the camera.

I am scratching my head, as I have installed all the Sony browsers for
Windows- and the result is all the same-no connection on the Windows system.

I have read, and re-read all the docs for the camera on the Sony site in regards
to XDCAM workflow in PP4, and read all the docs on Adobe, and yet I can not
get it to connect.

Maybe I am missing something here guys and girls,
if you can throw me a line here, it would be great.

Mark Pigott

You probably won't get a great deal of help on this forum because most of the people here are Mac guys.

My software:
Pro Maintenance Tools - Tools to keep Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro running smoothly and fix problems when they arise
Pro Media Tools - Edit QuickTime chapters and metadata, detect gamma shifts, edit markers, watch renders and more
More tools...

It can't hurt, as I have received next to nothing response on the PC sites!


Jon Chappell Wrote:
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> You probably won't get a great deal of help on
> this forum because most of the people here are Mac
> guys.

Is this helpful?

"if your OS is 64bit, you won't be able to install the FAM driver"

"There isn't a Prodisc driver for 64 bit. You can install all the software, but you won't be able to see your camera as a removable storage media. You can import on a non 64 bit and move the files over a network as you mentioned. I had to do the same thing when Vista first came out as there was no driver for it at the time. I used my XP laptop attached directly via ethernet to the Vista machine and attached camera to the laptop firewire port."

It's from these guys : [www.dvinfo.net]

That is the case! But imagine how shocked I was to find this out!
No 64 bit support for Vista
(that should be a mantra and I should repeat over and over)

Thanks for your help


Jude Cotter Wrote:
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> Is this helpful?
>
> "if your OS is 64bit, you won't be able to install
> the FAM driver"
>
> "There isn't a Prodisc driver for 64 bit. You can
> install all the software, but you won't be able to
> see your camera as a removable storage media. You
> can import on a non 64 bit and move the files over
> a network as you mentioned. I had to do the same
> thing when Vista first came out as there was no
> driver for it at the time. I used my XP laptop
> attached directly via ethernet to the Vista
> machine and attached camera to the laptop firewire
> port."
>
> It's from these guys :
> [www.dvinfo.net]
> /471459-pdw-f330-start-up-tips-software.html