I have both VMS and vegas pro 9. If you have a short clip posted somewhere I can try to duplicate the problem.

Is your memory chip FAT 32 or NTFS?
JJK

Here's the info from Media Info. Hope this helps someone with a solution. The file structure is NTSF,

General
Complete name : D:\Turner_boilers\B01C002.AVI
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format_Commercial_IfAny : DVCPRO
File size : 297 MiB
Duration : 1mn 21s
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 30.4 Mbps
Recorded date : 2012-01-03 11:01:25.000

Video
ID : 0
Format : DV
Format_Commercial_IfAny : DVCPRO
Codec ID : dvsd
Codec ID/Hint : Sony
Duration : 1mn 21s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 24.4 Mbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:1:1
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 2.357
Stream size : 238 MiB (80%)
Encoding settings : ae mode=full automatic / wb mode=automatic / white balance= / fcm=manual focus

Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 1mn 21s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 15.0 MiB (5%)

[EDIT] I see it is DVCPRO, which "may" not open in Vegas Pro 8.0c.
What version of Vegas Movie Studio are you able to open it in?

[EDIT2] Here's the issue: Specs for your device say "DV25, DVCPRO25, HDV."
If connected to a standard DV camcorder via firewire, you should select DV25.

Musicvid: Thanks for your help here.

In answer to your question, I can open the files successfully in Movie Studio 10.

However, the only choices in the setup menu for the device are
1) AVI (Microsoft)
2) AVI (Canopus)
3) MOV
4) MXF (OP 1A)

I've been capturing from a PD-150, via Firewire, using the AVI (Microsoft) setting.

So far the device works as advertised. I've been transferring the files from the flash card to Movie Studio 10, rendering to an AVI file and bringing the newly rendered AVI file into Vegas 8c, which adds a few minutes to the process but is an adequate workaround for now. I'd still like to be able to import directly into Vegas, however.

Thanks again for your helpful suggestions.

Jack

AVI (Microsoft)
DV-AVI
DV25

These are all the same thing

There are two types of AVI files; Type 1 and Type 2. (Not to be confused with OpenDML AVI 2.0 files, which allows AVI files to be larger than 2 GB.) The main difference between the two is how the audio is stored.

Read the section, "DV AVI" in the following Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Interleave

It sounds like the Datavideo is producing Type 1 files and Vegas Movie Studio will handle them. Unless something has changed recently, I believe that Vegas Pro will only handle Type 2 files.

There are several free type 1 to type 2 AVI converters around, eg
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/DV-Type-1-to-DV-Type-2-Converter

Thanks musicvid, John and Peter. It hadn't occurred to me that the files might be AVI type 1.

I'll try the converter you suggest and see if it works. It may well be that rendering to AVI in Movie Studio 10 is doing the same thing. Unless the ULead converter is faster I might just as well stay with the Movie Studio to Vegas work flow.

I'll also contact Datavideo and see what they have to say about this.

You gentlemen are always helpful and I appreciate it very much.

Jack