Try Scenalyzer Live...

http://www.scenalyzer.com/

Or WinDV...

https://www.videohelp.com/software/WinDV

I highly recommend WinDV http://windv.mourek.cz/ Its what i used back in the day for all my DV captures. 100% reliable with not a single dropped frame in sight.

Thank you for all the replies. I have since found a version of Vegas Pro 15 that I still have on my computer and it allows me to capture DV footage from my DV camera without any problems - so problem solved. Pity they didn't keep this with later version of Vegas Pro.

@peter-ilyk It makes absolutely no sense keeping it. DV tape usage and DV capturing are long outdated and rarely used by anyone anymore in this digital age. Digital acquisition is far more reliable.... One example.... When capturing from tape, you have to be sitting & waiting during real time playback for it to be captured, while its just a simple drag and drop for digital.

Well I'm not sure that is correct. DV may be outdated but there are lots of people out there (including me) that have lots of DV tapes that they haven't yet transferred to their computers - everything that's a bit old doesn't mean that it is useless. Why should Vegas Pro users have to go looking around for other software (or hardware) to transfer their DV tapes to their computers - when Vegas used to provide this facility and now don't.

Well I'm not sure that is correct. DV may be outdated but there are lots of people out there (including me) that have lots of DV tapes that they haven't yet transferred to their computers - everything that's a bit old doesn't mean that it is useless. Why should Vegas Pro users have to go looking around for other software (or hardware) to transfer their DV tapes to their computers - when Vegas used to provide this facility and now don't.

Nothing is preventing anyone from using their older version of Vegas Pro VidCap to support older hardware and capture media. Old software for old hardware. We had limited engineering resources to support an increasingly unused feature and we needed to make some trade-offs. VidCap was becoming more and more problematic for users and was a support nightmare. Our focus right now is on creating a new capture utility that is appropriate for common current capture workflows.

@peter-ilyk Whether you think i am correct or not, DV tapes are old technology that is rarely used and its counterpart ieee firewire connection also follows the same dated path. So you cannot now blame Vegas for that, when we already clearly pointed out to you alternatives that you can easily use, plus you can use your older Vegas versions.

Fair enough - but no one is saying that DV is not old technology -just that lots of people will still have lots of DV tapes that they haven't uploaded to their computers. And not everyone has kept their older Vegas versions (if they ever had the older version that supported DV capture).

You can still download old versions of VEGAS from your account if needed.

I have the same opinion as @VEGASDerek and @Steve_Rhoden. When you still want to do old (20 years ago) stuff like capturing DV's (and burning DVD's) then keep also the old hardware (DVcamera, computer with firewire connection and DVD drive) and the old software to do so. Do not expect that new software and new hardware is still developed to be able to do this. NEW cameras also do not record DV, why should NEW computers and NEW software then be able to capture DV?

I have the same opinion as @VEGASDerek and @Steve_Rhoden. When you still want to do old (20 years ago) stuff like capturing DV's (and burning DVD's) then keep also the old hardware (DVcamera, computer with firewire connection and DVD drive) and the old software to do so. Do not expect that new software and new hardware is still developed to be able to do this. NEW cameras also do not record DV, why should NEW computers and NEW software then be able to capture DV?

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I don't agree with you, @VEGASDerek or @Steve_Rhoden. My opinion is just as valid as yours.

@peter-ilyk I don't have a problem with your opinion. When you still want to do old stuff then it's just wise to keep your old stuff.

I do! And if you read my earlier posts (thanking everyone for their suggestions) you would have seen that I found my old version of Vegas Pro 15 and that enabled me to upload my DV footage as I had previously been able to do in days gone by.

@peter-ilyk you're lucky that Vegas Pro 15 was still able to capture DV. The days that I captured DV it was Vegas 5.

Our focus right now is on creating a new capture utility that is appropriate for common current capture workflows.

@VEGASDerek interesting! Will this still capture/transfer older tapes?

I assume current capture workflows mean digital screen captures.

Our focus right now is on creating a new capture utility that is appropriate for common current capture workflows.

@VEGASDerek interesting! Will this still capture/transfer older tapes?

For DV capturing you need also the appropriate hardware, means your PC should have a firewire connection. To my knowledge this connection is no longer supported and no longer standard present since over an decade in new PC's. Means also, when you expect to be able to capture/transfer DV with future Vegas capture utilities, that new versions of Vegas must be able to work also on older PC's with older OS, like Win7...I don't think that Magix Creative Software is developing that way... @VEGASDerek said explicit for common CURRENT capture workflows, which I also, like @RogerS, understand is for digital screen captures...

Though I haven't done it for a while, but if I want to transfer MiniDV video to a computer, I drag out a now 22 years old Dell 8300 Dimension computer (Windows XP) which has a Firewire card installed. This is also the process if I want to transfer video from a S-VHS VCR because the MiniDV camera has an S-Video input on it. The NLE used to do the Firewire transfer is a now ancient ULead VideoStudio NLE. I suppose that I could move the Firewire card to a more modern 14 years old computer and do the Firewire transfer via an old Sony Vegas Pro version.

BTW, I have a lot of audio cassettes from the 70s and 80s as well as a lot of CDs from the 80s +, but my now 5 years old car bought new at the time of purchase did not come with either an audio cassette player or a CD player - one-or-the-other used to be included in cars in times past.

Also, my several years old Yamaha Aventage amplifier does not have any S-Video connections and only one composite output which is used to connect to an old computer monitor purely to display the amplifier's menu settings. Much older Yamaha amplifiers used to include S-Video connectors with almost every input.

Times change and tech of all sorts drop old features when those features lose relevance/use with the majority of users.

@VEGASDerek interesting! Will this still capture/transfer older tapes?

No. Old hardware requires old software (and an old operating system which we no longer support).