2 dv capture devices

bobbys wrote on 7/12/2004, 9:54 PM
have a question to ask everyone, i recently bought 2 Canopus DV devices 1 is a ADVC 300, it's on fire wire and the other is a ACE DV IO pci card which came with vegas 4.0. I already have Vegas 5.0. This is what i am trying to accomplish. i want to capture from the ADVC 300 to my hard drive then when i am editing, preview the video through the ACE DV IO. the problem i am having is when i am recording through the ADVC 300 it wont record in vegas. how do i tell Vegas to capture from that device and not from the PCI card. in the video capture window under video i click it and it shows 2 devices to capture from and it wont let me decide which one.

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ScottW wrote on 7/13/2004, 5:18 AM
As far as I know, you can't. Vegas capture will only ever "see" the first capture card the computer sees, which in practice will always be the PCI card.

ScenAlyzer will let you select your capture device.

--Scott
Lawrence wrote on 7/13/2004, 6:06 AM
Try this,
Unplug the firewire cable from the ACE DV IO when you doing capturing.
Plug it back when editing

or Go to control panel and disable it when not in use.
farss wrote on 7/13/2004, 6:59 AM
I think this is a Windows restriction, you can only have one video stream. It would be very nice to have mulitpiple f.wire devices permanantly connected and be able to select them in Windows or Vegas.
ScottW wrote on 7/13/2004, 7:21 AM
Actually, I think it's a bug in Vegas Capture. I can have multiple video firewire devices hooked up to my computer without problem. At one point I had a MiniDV deck, my camera and my ADVC300 all hooked up and turned on at the same time.

No problem. ScenAlyzer would show me the 3 different devices in its device selection drop-down and let me select any of the 3 and let me capture from any of the 3.

Now mind you, I never tried to do multiple concurrent captures, and I've never tried to preview via the ADVC300 while trying to capture on a different device (my memory says that Vegas gets confused about the correct preview device as well).

--Scott