CAPTURING VIDEO from VHS to camera to computer

oc6088 wrote on 3/19/2008, 11:23 AM

I am trying to skip a step.
I am importing a VHS tape into my camcorder. Then I was going to firewire into Vegas into my computer.
I thought I could skip a step by simply importing from my VCR to the camera (which works fine if I do just that) and hooking up a firewire from the camera into the computer. And then import everything at once thus saving me 2 hours. It seems like it works for about one second then everything goes blank.
I don't even know if this is possible?

Any input would be helpful. I don't know if this is even a Vegas question or a computer question.

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 3/19/2008, 11:27 AM

In VidCap, Options / Preferences, uncheck Enable DV device control.

rs170a wrote on 3/19/2008, 11:29 AM

Assuming your camcorder has a feature called pass-through (and it sounds like it does), you need to go into the preferences in VidCap (Options - Preferences - General) and de-select "Enable DV device control".
If you don't do this, Vegas thinks it's controlling a miniDV camcorder and gets confused when it can't :-(

Mike

JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/19/2008, 2:50 PM

> Assuming your camcorder has a feature called pass-through (and it sounds like it does),

On some camcorders this can be turned on and off so make sure it is turned on if you have this feature. Otherwise once you disable device control like other have suggested it sounds like you should be in business.

~jr