capturing video

jekern wrote on 12/1/2005, 9:05 AM

When I try to capture the video from my Sony dvd camcorder it doesn't show up on the capture screen. All that shows up is the webcam I have hooked up. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong. How do I get Vegas Movie Studio 6 to reconize my dvd camcorder. Thanks

Comments

ScottW wrote on 12/1/2005, 10:22 AM

Presumably you are connecting the camcorder with a firewire cable and not a USB cable?

--Scott

Chienworks wrote on 12/1/2005, 10:42 AM

Most DVD camcorders don't support firewire capturing.

If you have Vegas Studio 6 you can import the video from your computer's DVD drive under File / Import.

jekern wrote on 12/1/2005, 1:54 PM

I am using a usb cable. When I try using the file/export, I have no dvd camcorder and neither one of my dvd drives will read the disks.

Tim L wrote on 12/1/2005, 2:38 PM

Did you "finalize" the DVD in the camcorder before trying to use it in the computer's DVD drive?

Can you play the DVD in a regular DVD player (i.e. hooked up to a TV)?

I tried importing some DVD files last night in VMS (they were already on my hard drive, and they were from a DVD I just created, not from a DVD camcorder), and it seems like the file window did not list .VOB files by default. I think I had to change to *.* (all files) to see the .VOB files (which are MPEG2 files), and then it let me see them and select them and import.

I don't have a DVD camcorder, so I don't know much about them, but I wonder if it even supports capture over the USB. Perhaps they expect PC users to put the disc in a drive to get video onto the computer. (This would be faster anyway -- could copy a 10 minute clip from DVD to hard drive faster than playing back a 10 minute clip and capturing.)

Tim L

A.S. wrote on 12/9/2005, 8:06 PM

This may not be your problem at all (I am not familiar with the DVD camcorders), but did you have your camcorder hooked up and powered on before you turned on your computer? I have to do it in that sequence in order for Movie Studio's capture program to "see" my camcorder.

careh wrote on 12/19/2005, 1:42 PM

In the video capture panel - choose the 'video' drop down option & verify that your DVD camcorder is the source for the capture.

Ptero wrote on 12/20/2005, 6:02 AM

My camcorder also has to be set to "playback" mode instead of "camera" mode, and when using USB I have to make sure that "USB Streaming" is switched on in the menus.