Decklink capture - no success

peteros wrote on 12/4/2005, 2:50 AM
I've been desperately trying to make my V6 capture video from a component source via a Decklink Extreme SD card. I meet the system requirements, use the right driver (4.8.1), disabled the external capture utility, set all preferences... and I still can't go beyond the blue "Unloaded" screen. What can be wrong? Any ideas?

The very card is OK - I can capture outside of V6 via Blackmagic Deck Control.

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farss wrote on 12/4/2005, 4:06 AM
1) You have to use the Internal Capture Utility.
2) Does the BMD card appear in the list of preview devices, that'll tell you if Vegas 'sees' the card.
3) I think from memory you have to tell Vegas to use the BMD card.
4) Do you have a 9 pin cable between the deck and the BMD card, I think without that Vegas will not play along.
I've only got the basic Decklink card but it's worked fine with both J30s and DVW 250 DB decks.

Bob.
peteros wrote on 12/4/2005, 7:12 AM
YES to all but 4. The 9-pin control connection has been my prime suspect as the machine I use have a broken 9-pin socket. Isn't there any solution to disable this deck control?

farss wrote on 12/4/2005, 12:59 PM
You could try disbaling machine control but I don't know if that's configurable when capturing via a BMD card.

Can you capture using the BMD utility?

If so capturing using it and open the QT file with Vgeas.

Bob.
peteros wrote on 12/4/2005, 3:48 PM
Tha's exactly waht I do (via BMD utility), but I did hope I could capture natively to some more native format that would produce more smooth playback on the timeline.

I contacted Sony supprot re. this issue, but they addressed it by e-mailing me a standard bla-bla-bla on how to configure DV capture. LOL

farss wrote on 12/4/2005, 11:30 PM
Don't you just love those caned responses, I got one of those too, kind of broke me up. Ya tell 'em you've been using Vegas for years, captured thousands of hours of video and they send you instructions on how to plug in a 1394 cable, great!

Back to your problem. Don't think it'll make any difference, using the BMD capture utility you can capture as 8 or 10 bit, Vegas only supports 8 bit. Apart from that though I'd assume that capturing via Vegas or the BMD utility will give you basically the same data, different wrapper but basically the same data.

The only other path you can go down is to capture via firewire as DV25, J30 will do that for you no sweat, didn't need the BMD card at all. However if you're in NTSC land all you get is 8 bit 4:1:1 which isn't that flash for SP, if it's already corrected etc mightn't be too bad but if you're planning on doing further work on it I think things might get ugly.
But here's a thought, why not capture as QT and then use Gearshift or encode to something easier to handle. I would have thought even the QT files should play back OK in Vegas, seemed to run OK when I tried them. The Vegas captured AVI files play back very smoothly.
Bob.