direct to disk support in Vegas 4?

MrMikeC wrote on 4/1/2004, 8:15 PM

I'm doing research on recording DV AVI straight to the hard drive via firewire while shooting . Is this possible to do in Vegas? There's a product called QuickStreamDV I just discovered which is a firewire hard disk that actually records with the camera in standby mode. I don't really need that. I'd just like to be able to record straight to the computer hard disk to eliminate the need to capture the footage afterwards. Is anyone doing this with Vegas?

Camera's firewire port ==> firewire card on pc ==> Hard drive via Vegas

let me know?

Comments

cyanide149 wrote on 4/2/2004, 2:27 AM

You capture to the drive, then "import" media" in Vegas after...

farss wrote on 4/2/2004, 2:47 AM

To look at it another way, use Vegas capture without device control and you're up and running. Big plus here is that a lot of the standalone units such as Firestore only support FAT32 drives which means the capture is split into 4GByte files and they seem to loose the odd frame or whole second when they switch to the next file.

johnmeyer wrote on 4/2/2004, 7:44 AM

If all you want to do is capture to a computer, that is easy: Just connect the Firewire cable and start capturing. You don't even need to have a tape in the camera. You can record for a long, long time, if you have a 250 Gbyte drive (almost 20 hours).