Vegas Video 4.0 and new Sony DVD Camcorder compatibility

dreamcitadel wrote on 1/2/2004, 12:11 PM
Happy New Year!!

I wanted to ask a silly technical question about compatibility between the new Sony DVD camcorders and Vegas Video 4.0. I know that Vegas Video supports Firewire connections and DV capture, but the new DVD camcorders all seem to be based on USB 2.0. Will Vegas Video be able to native support for this feature? Or will it be a future software upgrade, etc?

Please help....

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DGrob wrote on 1/2/2004, 1:35 PM
No additional support is necessary in Vegas. Firewire and USB2 are simply high speed connectivity ports that allow external devices, such as a camcorder or harddrive, to work data in/out at the speeds necessary to handle digital video. USB2 is supposed to be marginally faster, although it's also a recent upgrade from the old USB1 which was way slow. I us'em both. Capture via firewire into the PC, and store, edit, render, and burn DVDs to/on/from a 200GB external hard drive via USB2. DGrob
farss wrote on 1/2/2004, 1:41 PM
At the moment no USB support. Also the camera uses ac3 audio which Vegas cannot ingest or do anything with for that matter. The software that comes with the camera make Windoz Movie Maker look good.
I'm told ULead Media Studio Pro 7 will edit the material, we've yet to try that.
There is a number of ways you could get the material into Vegas, one of them being by playing the DVD in one of the Panasonic DVD burners with a firewire connection and recording it to DV. You should also be able to run a straight connection into a PC and capture directly with Vegas, just haven't tried that either as yet.

My personal advice, give the camera a wide berth.
farss wrote on 1/2/2004, 1:43 PM
DGrob,
how did you capture from a camera that has no firewire?
jetdv wrote on 1/2/2004, 1:50 PM
how did you capture from a camera that has no firewire?

Analog through a convertor?
dreamcitadel wrote on 1/2/2004, 10:29 PM
So basically when the Sony DVD camcorder is connected, it will treat it as another external storage device or drive.... I know that in many cases, when you connect a device by either Firewiree or USB 2.0, the PC will just treat it as another drive unless it's a "specific" device (such as a printer, scanner, etc.) I just wanted to make sure that Vegas wouldn't have a problem with either importing the information directly from the camcorder itself or reading the finished DVD disc from the camera and importing the video and audio into the project.

Thanks again to everyone that replied..... I truly appreciate your help with these questions.
farss wrote on 1/3/2004, 12:30 AM
dreamcitadel,
um. Vegas WILL have a problem!
Will some difficulty you can get the video onto the timeline as mpeg-2, with the audio you'll have no luck at all.