Print To Tape simply doesn't work

mikesims10670 wrote on 2/18/2003, 2:05 AM
I'll try and make this brief. I need this video output before this Thursday, as it is part of a group presentation in school.

I have a clone PC running XP (Asus P4S8X with a P4 2.4, 512 RAM, PC133 120 gig hard drive). IEEE etc is ALL on board ... no extra PCI cards.

I can capture fine from my Sony TRV11, but when I print to tape using the video capture program (OR from the timeline for that matter), the video camera does in fact go into record mode (I can both hear it and see the red record light on the camera's screen), but absolutely NO video OR audio ever gets to the tape. All it succeeds in doing it erasing the tape and making it blank.

I let it run for 5 mintes. When I click on stop, the camera stops recording, and the software tells me that the print is complete. But there is absolutely NO VIDEO on the tape when its done.

The source file was saved using the vegas tempelate NTSC DV with one modification: I made the audio MONO.

I have stopped every single running program I could kill in the task manager (there were only 5), and I completely disabled every USB device in the device manager.

And if your curious, NO, I cannot get the preview to device working either. Also, I am not previewing the video in full screen mode.

The software correctly shows the print length as 21:47 etc ... but the Current Location always stays at ZERO, indicating to me that streaming never actually starts after the camera goes into record mode.

Any ideas here?

Comments

mikesims10670 wrote on 2/18/2003, 2:07 AM
BTW, I'm using Vegas Video 3.0 build 138.
Tyler.Durden wrote on 2/18/2003, 6:42 AM
Hi Mike,

How did you make the audio mono?

Yu might try mono-izing the audio in the timeline and using the default DV render template...




HTH, MPH

Tips:
http://www.martyhedler.com/homepage/Vegas_Tutorials.html
Chienworks wrote on 2/18/2003, 7:38 AM
As Marty mentions, using the default template would have the audio be stereo, which is in accordance with the DV spec. I suspect that making the audio mono in the DV file is what's preventing your camera from picking up the signal. Try rendering & printing a very short section in stereo (making no changes to the default DV template) and see if that works. If so, you can right-mouse-button click on the audio track in the timeline and choose Channels / Combine to create a mono track, which will then render to stereo with the left & right channels identical.
zcus wrote on 2/18/2003, 8:03 AM
Sometimes you have to turn off "DV out" on your camcorder or deck. Try that!
mikesims10670 wrote on 2/18/2003, 2:09 PM
zcus had the answer! I had to turn off the DV Out. THANKS!
Curtsong wrote on 2/28/2003, 1:56 AM
That's something like what I'm experiencing. Only I see video recording on my camera, but, there is no audio. Did you do any editing to the audio in Sound Forge? That's what I did. I had voices independently on the R & L channels That I had to boost one channel and then combine the two to both channels which I used the channel converter for. I've done this before and it has worked. I can't figure out what my deal is either.