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Chienworks wrote on 3/2/2006, 7:00 PM
Yes.

You'll need some sort of digitzing device such as a video card with composite analog input, a digital camcorder that alows analog input, or an external A/V->DV converter box.
Klausky wrote on 3/2/2006, 7:03 PM
I have an old Pinnacle Movie Box. Would this work with Vegas?
DGrob wrote on 3/3/2006, 4:27 PM
Most DV camcorder have an AV-DV converter option in the menus.I output my analog via RCA three-plug to a composite mini plug that goes directly into my camcorder(s). Select AV-DV to "on" in the menu, remove the tape from the camcorder (can be a fatal oversight), hook up my firewire out to the computer, turn on the camcorder in VCR mode. Voila, play the VCR and capture via Vegas Capture. No batch capture, no scene detection (although you can run the same input thru Scenalyser and get a reasonable, optical, scene detection tape index.

Darryl
JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/3/2006, 5:35 PM
> I have an old Pinnacle Movie Box. Would this work with Vegas?

Probably not. Pinnacle is notorious for selling proprietary hardware that only works with their buggy software. If it’s the USB version it might not but if it’s the firewire version it might as long as it looks like a DV camera to Windows. The only way to know is to try it.

~jr
birdcat wrote on 3/4/2006, 7:09 AM
I purchased a Dazzle 150 which came with Pinnacle Studio 8 - Neither ever worked without big problems (how I came to Vegas in the first place - through Movie Studio and then moved up).

I have a Sony Handycam HC40 which allows me to take composite video in and pass through to the PC capture directly - Many other camcorders have this feature.