Firewire, Soundforge, capture audio

Edward wrote on 1/18/2006, 4:35 PM

Don't know if anyone did this already, but I connected my camera (PD 170) via firewire to my computer.
Turned it on to 'camera'.
Have the Creative blaster audigy, set record to 'What You Hear'.
Muted speakers (I have the multimedia keyboard)
Opened capture video from vegas.
Hit record on soundforge.
Made the Capture video window active, and did my VO.
When done, I closed everything down except soundforge.
Vioala!

of course, most people bypass this tedious event with a simple mic and mackie board plugged into the soundcard. but if you need a quick fix and you don't have a mic... then why not?

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 1/19/2006, 6:48 AM

You would probably get better results if you captured the input as an AVI file in VidCap, then render that to a WAV file to ditch the video. You'll end up with a straight digital recording then. With what you're doing, you're going digital -> analog -> digital, and the analog step is through the cruddy noisy soundblaster circuitry.

Edward wrote on 1/19/2006, 8:09 AM

aahhhhh.... i learn something new everyday...