DV500 and Vegas 4 - experience and suggestions please

aXLe wrote on 4/22/2003, 1:16 AM

Hi everyone,

I'm looking at converting from Premiere 6.5 to Vegas 4.

I run a Pinnacle DV500 card, and am wondering if you can give me suggestions as to how I can get it all working with Vegas 4.

Does the Analog capture work? Should I use Scenalyzer for this?

Does the analog output work for playback?

Thanks!

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prayergarden wrote on 4/22/2003, 6:42 AM

I use the Edition DV 500 with Vegas and have experienced no problems. I analog /dv capture and output perfectly. However, I do believe that it is mandatory that you upgrade the DV500 to Version 4.5 to make the card acceptable. Check the Pennicle Forums, to be sure.

Charles

aXLe wrote on 4/22/2003, 5:54 PM

Thanks Charles,

just a couple of questions though - do you use Vegas to do the Analog capture? If so, what do you set the input capture device to?

For playback with external monitor, does it just work without having to do anything?

Thanks!
Dean

aXLe wrote on 4/23/2003, 12:55 AM

Anyone else have experience with this?

aXLe wrote on 4/23/2003, 12:55 AM

Anyone else have experience with this?

mysteryno wrote on 4/23/2003, 2:18 PM

I just changed over from DV500/Premiere 6.5 in the middle of a project, so I could take advantage of video editing with 5.1 surround editing in the same app.
I ran into a very odd problem that I'm attributing to the 4.5 drivers for the DV500 card. There is a chance I may be wrong, but I'll tell the story:
Exported from premiere the timeline using the pinnacle dv2 codec, and when I played or renedered clips in Vegas there was frame doubling and skipping randomly, but repeatable if nothing changed.
When I zoomed in on the timeline in Vegas to about 1/1000 of a frame, I noticed that the individual frames were shifting to the right slightly from the timeline markers, more and more as I advanced into the clip.
I tried many things to no avail, and finally solved it by exporting a Targa sequence from Premiere, reasssembling them in Vegas and re-rendering using their standard DV codec.
When I went back and checked, the captures and older renders were fine from Premiere/Pinnacle, but not the new renders.
I was bummed because i really liked the color correction abilities with the 4.5 Pinnacle update. Other than that I don't miss my old system, and I really don't like change.
Vegas saves me time by being more intuitive, having the ability to expand your audio waveform to full-screen if necessary, and saves lots of time by not having to re-boot.
The only problem that I have now is some hardware, (not software), problems with an external monitor. (I'm getting a replacement for an external converter that is temperature sensitive)

I hope this helps,
-Robert

aXLe wrote on 4/23/2003, 8:11 PM

Thanks Robert,

I guess what I'm after is an idea of someones configuration when using DV500 and Vegas.

IE. Vegas 4
DV500 4.5 drivers
External monitor on DV500 breakoutbox (did you have to do anything to get this to work)
Analogue capture details (do you use scenalyzer?) Or can you get the capture to work from Vegas?

Thanks!

mysteryno wrote on 4/23/2003, 10:47 PM

As far as I know, the only way to have an external monitor for Vegas is through a firewire converter. Though Vegas can use the pinnacle dv codec, it won't play out the analog ports. I did a little with the firewire port on the DV500 before I took it out and that seemed to work OK. Now I'm using the firewire port on a Audigy 2 card. Probably not the best butseems to be fairly stable with the Canopus ADVC-100 converter.
Vegas is very stable and happy, not having to deal with all those hardware drivers. The only times I had reboot/lockup problems was when I ran Premiere in the same session with Vegas to get some old project info.
-Robert