Capture picture turns black when

gobeavs wrote on 3/7/2005, 1:38 AM

Hello, when I go to capture video in vegas 4.0 it has always worked just fine but now I have a problem. When I start the camera it plays in the viewing window just fine but when I hit the capture button to start capturing the viewing window go's black.

Shut off the capture and picture is right back on there looking good. Any ideas as to what is going on. Like I said, no problems before.

Thanks,

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Chienworks wrote on 3/7/2005, 4:29 AM

Are you actually capturing when this happens? (Did you even check?) If so, you probably have "smart preview" checked. This turns off the preview window while capturing to save on processor cycles.

If you aren't successfully capturing, are you capturing from a DV camcorder or not? If not, are you using an A/V->DV converter of some sort? If yes, then perhaps you've set VidCap to "enable DV device control" which could be causing the problem you're seeing.

gobeavs wrote on 3/7/2005, 4:50 PM

Thanks for the reply, Chienworks. Unfortunately, I've trtied your suggestions, and I am still getting the same result.

I am capturing from a Canopus ADVC-100 converter (from a Hi-8 camcorder). The video is previewing fine on the capture screen, but when i hit the capture button, the screen goes to black. The time runs as if it's capturing something 9the "black"), but when I hit stop the box displays no items captured, and no time from the disk space is used up when this happens.

I went to OPTIONS and then to PREFERENCES and clicked off the "DV Device Control" button as suggested. That made the "Play" button non-functional, and when I pushed the capture button the same thing happened. All black, nothing captured.

I've never encountered this before. Is there, perhaps, another setting I've overlooked that might accidentally be clicked wrong?

Thanks

gobeavs wrote on 3/7/2005, 5:05 PM

I don't know why I never tried it before, but a good reset to EVERYthing can often do the trick. I rebooted and rebooted the computer . But it was the Analog-to-DV converter (Canopus ADVC-100) that I turned off and then back on that caused it to finally work.

Just thought I'd let you know.

Thanks.