Audio and Video capture, pt. 2

ThomasATL wrote on 3/26/2002, 9:21 PM

So far, Vegas documentation is rather lacking. My next scenario was to take the VHS audio into the Director's Cut converter along with the video.

1) I could not preview the audio along with the Video capture. The audio menu was greyed out, which makes sense because the only inputs in the menu was my soundcard (which I'm not using for input in this scenario.)

2)I completed the capture and the audio was present. However, significant clipping occured. I don't know where to troubleshoot this problem. The input on the converter does not have an input level adjuster. Is it a software problem?

Thanks

Thomas

Comments

deef wrote on 3/27/2002, 11:55 AM

So you're capturing DV via the Director's Cut converter. Make sure the proper MS DV driver is installed. Should show up in Device Manager under "Imaging Devices" and in Video Capture as "Microsoft DV Camera and VCR".

You can preview audio via the Video Capture options menu.

Not sure what to say about the clipping...it may be on the analog side. I just tested a PowerR version of this device with successful captures, however the device wouldn't function properly when I trying printing to it as it keep dropping audio and video.

ThomasATL wrote on 3/27/2002, 6:10 PM

"You can preview audio via the Video Capture options menu."

I had that checked, but where is the audio output. What's it previewing through?

tserface wrote on 3/27/2002, 6:19 PM

If you are talking about using th external monitor function to view the video (before rendering) on the monitor, VV3 just sends video through the firewire. It does preview audio when capturing. I use a Director's Cut as well and it works great capturing from analog sources with video and sound. You do have to have the Capture Audio check box checked and I've found it works best to turn off device controls since they won't work with the Director's Cut anyway. My VCR is also hooked to a TV so I use that to make sure my connection is set up, then I press Play, and then press the Capture button when it is almost to where I want to capture. When it gets to the end of the clip I want I press Stop. Then I trim the extra beginning and end off in the Trimmer window or Timeline. The sound stays sync'd with the video pretty well. If you decide you don't want the sound with one of the clips you can right click drag the clip then pick Video Only from the popup menu after you drop it in the timeline.

I do this all the time and it works wonderfully. I did get 1 dropped frame once, but I just redid it and the next time it worked perfectly.

I do get a couple of lines of random pixels at the end of the clip (going across the bottom) that I usually trim out with Pan/Crop. I wish there was a way to do a Pan/Crop on a whole track instead of having to do it clip by clip, but it works. I don't know what the "noise" is at the bottom of the analog to DV clips, but I'm guessing it's not VV3's fault and the rest works so well that I just live with it.

Tom