It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/WobbleWobbleWobble on 2025-03-03 00:44:00.

There was an issue with WinDV crashing when trying to capture any video from my minidv camcorder. However, I was able to figure it out and decided to make this post in case it helps anyone else in the future. As described above, after connecting my camcorder to my computer with a firewire, loading up WinDV, then pressing capture, the program would immediately crash without any error statement.

The reason why the program was crashing is because the capture file directory did not exist. The program was trying to save the file to a non-existent location. After creating the folder on my desktop, it was able to record fine.

Hope this helps someone!