Can ANYBODY help me please? I have a Pinnacle Studio DV Version 8 editing package. I have installed it together with the video capture card. Now I know my system is only Windows ’98 and yes I know it is not supposed to work on ’98 (or can it). My system speed is 450MHz and I have 256MB RAM and two large drives 10GB &100GB. Every thing seems to work ok by that I mean the demonstration video with sound plus I can edit the demonstration video. The ONLY thing I can’t do is to down load my digital video from my camera and a message keeps coming up telling me: ….cannot initialize the DV capture device please ensure the camcorder is connected and switched on or turn the camera off reconnect and start windows again. I think its none of these and think (only think) it may be a driver for the card. This I am told could be on another windows operating system. I don’t want to upgrade just yet to another operating system and Pinnacle cannot help me ANY further. I am hoping someone out there can help me. I hope so. Yes I do switch on camera BEFORE I switch on the computer

Pinnacle Studio Version8: Minimum System Requirements: Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon 500 MHz or higher 128 MB RAM (256 MB RAM recommended) Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP DirectX compatible sound and graphics card Mouse CD-ROM drive 300 MB of disk space to install software 4 GB of disk space for every 20 minutes of video captured at best quality. Hard disk must be capable of sustained throughput of at least 4 MB/sec. All SCSI and most UDMA drives are fast enough (dedicated hard drive recommended).

I recall that you posted this a while ago. You will just have to accept that you need to upgrade to W98se. Microsoft also released a DV capture update patch for W98se.