DV Capture does not work VegasVideo 3.0 Build 64

joedonovan wrote on 12/17/2001, 2:13 PM
Hi

I am trying to capture dv video from my camcorder (running windows xp). Previewing works and also device control, but when I press capture video all hell breaks loose (or so). The counter of how much I have captured counts in multiples of what is actually running, e.g. 4 seconds of video capture are displayed as 02:58:30,00 of caputured video. and if I press stop it shows 0 frames captured 0 ....

During the capture it does not indicate any frame losses.

I tested my camcorder with Adobe Premiere 6 and Ulead Media Studio 6.5 and both work.

What's wrong with Vegas Video???

Please help

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DCools wrote on 12/17/2001, 6:06 PM
Hello,

I'm also having problems with Video Capture 3.0. I had the same problem with Video Capture 2.5. I select record, everything goes ok - even the counter - and after a few scenes I press stop. Then a messagebox saying that nothing is captured. I went to the folder where everything is placed when capturing, and indeed, nothing was there. Every scene should be saved to a file named clip[scene number].avi.

Ok, now I clicked rewind and go record again. When a scene is recorded I go to the record folder and indeed, all the files are there. I click stop, i got a message saying nothing is recorded en I went back to the folder. What the [beep] no files where there anymore.

I did a rewind again, pushed record and everytime a scene was recorded I renamed the scene files with a prefix of "_". I had renamed five scene files from clip[Scene].avi to _clip[Scene].avi while a long scene 6 was still recording. Ok, now I push stop and again i got a message saying nothing was recorded. I went back again to the recorded folder en yes, 5 clips that I renamed were there exept scene six. I opened them and they where perfect, al five of them. I dont know what is goin' on here....

Regards,
Diederick.
ramallo wrote on 12/18/2001, 5:44 AM
Hi,

Open Vidcap, go to> Options > Preferences > Capture > Uncheck the minimun clip length and Voila, works.

Bye
DCools wrote on 12/18/2001, 8:08 AM
Ola,

It worked, thanks. I think that in the future I should RTFM. Is Sonic Foundry support reading this? A few month ago they couldn't give me this answer - or they were thinking who is that stupid person :).

Regards,
Diederick.
CDM wrote on 12/18/2001, 10:53 AM
do you mean Build 76? That's the retail version. How are you working with build 64?
DCools wrote on 12/19/2001, 5:58 AM
Hi,

> do you mean Build 76? That's the retail
> version. How are you working with build 64?

It didn't work with any version of video capture. Only the 2.0 version worked for me. At the moment i'm using Vegas Video 3.0 (Build 76) and Video Capture 3.0 (Build 63).

Regards,
Diederick.
deef wrote on 1/6/2002, 5:27 PM
For those who have followed this work around, are you all capturing PAL footage? Are you still getting a bunch of very short clips?
ramallo wrote on 1/9/2002, 7:58 AM
Hello,

>For those who have followed this work around, are you >all capturing PAL footage? Are you still getting a >bunch of very short clips?

Yes, I capture PAL. All the clips are over 2 seconds, no capture small clips. The Vidcap fails.

Best Regards
merler wrote on 1/10/2002, 1:47 AM
>For those who have followed this work around, are you >all capturing PAL footage? Are you still getting a >bunch of very short clips?

Yes, its all PAL-DV footage. And: Yes, a whole bunch of small clips in the capture-directory - an when i am done - their vanished... :-(
deef wrote on 1/11/2002, 1:18 AM
And if you uncheck the minimum clip lenght, all those files stay around, right?

What device? I've seen a repro similar to this.

Thanks!
Jelte wrote on 1/11/2002, 9:52 AM
Same problem here.

Capturing PAL DV, from a Sony Digital 8 cam under Windows XP. Device control works fine, capture button works, timer starts ..eh.. timing. When I push the stop button in device control I get the post capture dialogue informing me that no clips have been captured.

Capturing from my TV tuner card works fine. Of course, no scene detection there so I assume the bug is in the scene detection/clip length area.

Capturing works fine under Premiere, MS Movie Maker, Scenalyzer.

Please solve this, Sonic Foundry, I turned to Vegas Video 3 for the integrated capturing with scene detection.

Jelte
merler wrote on 1/11/2002, 3:03 PM
>>And if you uncheck the minimum clip lenght, all those files stay around, right?
Thats correct.

>>What device? I've seen a repro similar to this.
Its a Sony DCR-PC100. With Premiere 6.0 everything works without a problem (but i love that SonicFoundry stuff :-) Think, its just a little bug. Hope you will solve the topic.

Thanx