Analog tape into vegas

emmo2002 wrote on 9/17/2003, 1:36 PM
Hey all,

I am a teacher and a VV user for two years now. I just convinced my school to purchase VV instead of updating their premiere programs and the computer people had a few questions.

1) what is the best hardware to use with VV to capture analog video, and what ones dont work so well?

2) is there a way to find out licensing fees for vegas?

Any thoughts on either of those would be great.
Thanks in advanced!

Emmo

Comments

jetdv wrote on 9/17/2003, 1:41 PM
The best way is to go through some type of converter and capture via firewire. The convertor can be a camera, deck, or external box such as an ADVC100. Canopus also makes a card with this capability built-in. Plus Vegas CAN capture from some other analog cards.

What type of licensing fees are you referring to? You need one legal copy per machine.
johnmeyer wrote on 9/17/2003, 3:40 PM
Any DV camera with "pass-through" will work (most Sony camcorders). I've always gotten better captures with a DV camcorder than with my dedicated ATI Radeon 8500DV "All-in-Wonder" capture card.

Sonic Foundry/Sony has educational licensing discounts. Give them a call and inquire.
Jsnkc wrote on 9/17/2003, 4:59 PM
I will put in my vote for either the Canopus ADVC-50 or 100, and also the Canous ACEDVio. I use both of them and I love them, they will give you great quality captures. And if you are planning to buy a camera also, then yeah, just get one with analog inputs and skip the other stuff.
alfredsvideo wrote on 9/17/2003, 5:11 PM
I purchased a Sony TRV345 Digital 8 camera exactly for the purpose of converting all my old tapes to digital. The beauty of this method is that you also end up with a spare camera. An anologue to digital converter, on the other hand, means that there is no other use to which you can put it to.
pete_h wrote on 9/17/2003, 6:06 PM
I agree with "Peace" and bought a Sony for exactlly the same reason.

Has been working great, converting the old analog to DV, and takes wonderful NEW Movies, in DV ofcourse!
kentwolf wrote on 9/17/2003, 10:13 PM
>>...means that there is no other use to which you can put it to.

Sure there is... (I use the Canopus ADVC-100)

1.) If someone is using the camera, you can still capture video.
2.) If someone is using the camera, you can send video *out* from the PC to tape.
3.) You can hook up a Direct TV satellite receiver to your converter and not tie up the camcorder. Great for recording the Superbowl and transferring to DVD.
4.) You can use S-video in. (Unless your camcorder has this.)
5.) Convenient interface for your firewire in.
6.) You can have all of your in/out cables hooked up and don't have to move them around.

...and there ya' go... :)