I'm sorry gentlemen, I realized yesterday I wrote my message in the wrong place. I apologize for this. Here is my help request. Thanks for your patience, Vincenzo ===== Hi all, I've recently bought a MiniDV Sony video camera (model DCR-TRV22E). I've some troubles in downloading my video on Firewire. After connecting the camera to the IEEE-1394 port of my notebook (ASUS A2H series) with e 4-4 pins cable it happens that during downloading (using Movie Maker II), but also in "idle" conditions, sometimes the camera seems to be disconnected from the IEEE port for a while and after few seconds reconnected. Note that using the USB connection instead, all things work perfectly (but with a worst image quality, of course). Please, can you help me to find out the reason of this disconnection? Thank you very much. Yours faithfully, Vincenzo.