Capture no sound

Borge-Sandal wrote on 2/17/2019, 11:26 AM

Hi!

I am transfering Hi8 videos to digital format, but I am not able to capture sound.

My setup: Win10 64-bit (version 10.00.17134), VEGAS pro 14.0 (Build 211) 64 bit, VEGAS Video Capture 6.0 (Build 1004), Sound Card: Focusrite SaffirePro 40, VCR player: SONY EV-S1000E, Video Converter: ADVC 300.

Video: I am tapping video (Yellow) from VCR - Line out ,to ADVC 300, and from ADVC via Firewire to PC.

Sound: VCR - RCA line out to Focusrite (LR - in this case line in 7 & 8), and from focusrite via Firewire to PC.

I have sound in the two corresponding tracks from Focusrite, and sound to mix. I can record the sound into VEGAS pro 14, from corresponding lines, from mix or from loop.

Opening Video Capture, all works fine with the video-signals, but I am not able to capure the sound. Under Audio It lists "Saffire Audio (Saffire Audio)". It is marked at the left side (as I have chosen it/clicked it/marked it) but it is greyed out as if it were inactive. I have marked "Capture sound" under Options - Preferences. When Capturing I can hear the sound, but nothing is "recorded" or captured.

When putting the video clip into vegas pro, video is fine, but there is nothing on the audio track. The line is "empty", The track is not muted, increasing db gives nothing, normalizing gives only a lot of noise, since there oviously is nothing to normalize.

Changing the Master stream (in Capture) does not help. I have also tried to change the sound device setup in Vegas pro, tapping sound from either corresponding in lines, mix, or loop. (I really dont think this is an issue as long as I think this only affects direct recoring into VEAGAS pro, but it was worth trying.

Any suggestions here?

I appreciate every tip and help I can get!

Børge

Norway

Comments

Marco. wrote on 2/17/2019, 1:22 PM

You should get both video and audio via the ADVC 300.

rraud wrote on 2/17/2019, 2:36 PM

I would input the L-R audio directly from the VCR into the ADVC 300 and forget about the Focusrite

The other option is to digitize the audio though the Focusrite in a separate audio capture and sync the A/V afterwards manually.

ryclark wrote on 2/18/2019, 6:47 AM

As above. you cannot use two separate devices for video and audio. It has to be the same device for both since a common clock is needed for the digitization of video and audio.

Borge-Sandal wrote on 2/18/2019, 1:54 PM

Thanks, common clock explains a lot. Have now tried both video and sound via same device, everything works just fine.