Hello. I have two questions about capturing some video/film:
1) I have an old 8mm film (with projector) that I need to digitize and capture for editing in Vegas. I have never done this before, so I would appreciate any advice about how to do this. I have a Sony DCR-TRV70 camera that I would like to film it with. I'm worried about the difference between 24/29.97 FPS, among other things...
2) I have an old and degraded VHS tape that I'm capturing using a ADS Technologies PYRO Link capture device. When I first tried to capture the tape into Vegas, on a test run, it worked ok, dropping some frames here and there. I stopped it, reconfigured vegas to not show the preview of the capture, and tried again. Everything seemed to work fine, but the audio was not captured and a lot of frames were dropped. I then switched over to the ULEAD application that came with the capture device, to try to capture there. This time, the frames were dropped in the exact same spots on the tape that they were in Vegas, which leads me to believe that there are some more serious problems with the tape. The audio, on the other hand, captured without incident.
Vegas, then was unable to fully calculate the 'peaks' of the audio from the .avi tracks captured into the ULEAD program, claiming that the audio changed format about 1/2 of the way through each track. Bummer. The only way that I could find to get the video into Vegas was to then render out the entire length of footage that I wanted from the ULEAD program, and edit this rendered footage in Vegas (color correction, etc...) before rendering it AGAIN.
What's going on here? Why would Vegas not capture the audio? Is it the capture device? It is supposed to be an good low-to-mid-range capture device. Is it the degraded 17-year old VHS tape to blame? Any advice on how I can do this in the future, to avoid all of the trouble posed by this old tape?
1) I have an old 8mm film (with projector) that I need to digitize and capture for editing in Vegas. I have never done this before, so I would appreciate any advice about how to do this. I have a Sony DCR-TRV70 camera that I would like to film it with. I'm worried about the difference between 24/29.97 FPS, among other things...
2) I have an old and degraded VHS tape that I'm capturing using a ADS Technologies PYRO Link capture device. When I first tried to capture the tape into Vegas, on a test run, it worked ok, dropping some frames here and there. I stopped it, reconfigured vegas to not show the preview of the capture, and tried again. Everything seemed to work fine, but the audio was not captured and a lot of frames were dropped. I then switched over to the ULEAD application that came with the capture device, to try to capture there. This time, the frames were dropped in the exact same spots on the tape that they were in Vegas, which leads me to believe that there are some more serious problems with the tape. The audio, on the other hand, captured without incident.
Vegas, then was unable to fully calculate the 'peaks' of the audio from the .avi tracks captured into the ULEAD program, claiming that the audio changed format about 1/2 of the way through each track. Bummer. The only way that I could find to get the video into Vegas was to then render out the entire length of footage that I wanted from the ULEAD program, and edit this rendered footage in Vegas (color correction, etc...) before rendering it AGAIN.
What's going on here? Why would Vegas not capture the audio? Is it the capture device? It is supposed to be an good low-to-mid-range capture device. Is it the degraded 17-year old VHS tape to blame? Any advice on how I can do this in the future, to avoid all of the trouble posed by this old tape?