My year old $750 Sony TRV27 has a feature than you can feed an input signal (from a VCR, Hi8, etc) through it, and it auto-magically digitizes it and feeds it back through the firewire connection for real-time DV capture. It works well (I've digitized several hours of analog Hi8 and standard TV signal this way.)

I imagine some of the pros here have better equipment/ideas, but you may want to check your camcorder manual.

I guess if you have anything at all that will let you capture analog as avi files (or a variety of other formats) then you ought to be able to drag those into vegas.

Even if Vegas could see the capture card it won't be able to control it.

Mikee has a point about passing the video through your camera but I'll go one better. If you dub your videos onto DV tape and then capture with Vegas I think you'll have time code. That means you can recapture the same stuff again later and Vegas or Scenalyzer can do the recapture as a batch job.

Rob Mack

rmack350 - Yes it will do this. But it wont put in the "breaks" in TC that would have occured through stopping and starting the cammie.

Vegas, even with Scene Detection on wont do this. I understand SceneAlyzer will and works on the actual optical "secen change". Drawback here is that you could end up with masses of clips, although filmed as an "aesthetically" continous event, it will be cut up.

Soooo.... If Scene Detection is required from Vegas AND you want to have each event to have its own discreet TC selection for Vegas's Scene Detect, I suppose starting and stopping the interim Cammie will create that much needed TC break points, then and only then, will Vegas have an opportunity to use its Scene Detect. . . .
I do realise, rmack350, your "If you dub your videos onto DV tape . . " is correct. But that Dubbing would need to have the TC break points.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

. . just my 2 pennies worth. It's a bit of detail, but I think valuable to be spelt out - yeah?
Grazie

Hook up your analog play into your camcorder via Svideo or composite cables (select AC-DV converter from the camcorder menu.) Firewire out from the camcorder to your computer. Open Vegas, Capture. Go to Options, Preferences, General Tab. DESELECT enable device control. Fire up the video, hit the capture video button when you're ready, hit stop when you're done.

Open the clip in Vegas Trimmer window and add all the clips you want with regions. You're off and running.

Just went through this with multiple hours of analog for a local project. DGrob

. . . or do what Grobsie just said . .. .

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