HDV Capture

fredson wrote on 12/26/2007, 4:50 AM
I have a Sony HDV-FX1 and am trying to capture in HD Format in Vegas Pro 8.0. It doesn't recognize the HD camera. When I switch the camcorder to translate everything to DV - it works fine.

The Odd part is that Vegas 7.0 works great capturing HD - so I have been using 7.0 to capture and 8.0 to edit. 8.0 is much more stable with the Directx and VST plug-ins... 7.0 was a disaster!

Am I missing someting? In 7.0, you get a dialog box asking if this is HD or SD format. In 8.0, no dialog box. In 7.0, it recognizes the FX1 - in 8.0 it does not. Same computer and same camcorder connected at the same time and I get these radically different results. Is this a 8.0 bug or is there an option I am missing?

Comments

daryl wrote on 12/26/2007, 8:53 PM
Hmmm, I get the dialog box in V8 asking DV or HD, if you're not seeing it, something is not working quite right. There is a current problem with the Canon XH-A1 capturing HD, but I have not heard of a problem with the Sony cam.
I wonder if a reinstall of V8 might help, just a shot-in-the-dark, but like I said, I DO get the dialog box.
teaktart wrote on 12/27/2007, 12:57 PM
Have you tried to change your capture app for HDV to Vegas capture?

Go into Vegas> Options/Preferences/Video tab

UNcheck the "use external video capture application" and click Apply and OK to close.

Next click on File/ Capture Video

and hopefully you will get the capture window for your HDV
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(If the "use external video capture application" is checked then I don't think you will get the "internal" capture app to show up for your HDV capture as mentioned by Daryl)

Eileen
jabloomf1230 wrote on 12/27/2007, 5:33 PM
I'm assuming that camcorder is showing up in the Windows Device Manager. If so, try HDVSplit and see if it recognizes the camera and will capture HDV. It does a decent job of capturing HDV:

http://strony.aster.pl/paviko/hdvsplit.htm

If HDVSplit also doesn't recognize the camera, than you can rule out Vegas as being the source of the problem.