HDV Capture problems

ca_john wrote on 6/30/2005, 11:47 PM
Is anybody else having troubles getting HDV to capture from a HVR-Z1U and Vegas?

I'm not getting anything in the capture window for the IEEE 1394/MPEG2-TS device and Camera in HDV mode - no video, no transport controls. - With Sony Video Capture Utilty I can capture DV, only transport control modes in HDV mode of camera.

Has anybody encountered and figured this out?

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Yoyodyne wrote on 6/30/2005, 11:56 PM
not sitting in front of Vegas right now but -
you have to de-select vidcap in preferences & capture from the Vegas built in capture utility. I think it gives you a choice when you de-select vidcap.

hope this helps
ca_john wrote on 7/1/2005, 12:02 AM
Ah, I've figured out that the internal capure feature allows HDV and have tried using it, But I get no response at all over there, when I try to select the IEEE/1392 MPEG2-TS device, nothing happens, the camera is in HDV mode.

Thanks for the try on help!!!

Are you capturing HDV just fine??? Does something positive happen when you select the IEEE/1392 MPEG2-TS device?

-John

Liam_Vegas wrote on 7/1/2005, 12:15 AM
Many people here are capturing HDV just fine.... Is your issue that the Z1U has not been recognized by Windows?

You may need to install the drivers manually

The following post by Spot over on another forum may be the answer.
Spot|DSE wrote on 7/1/2005, 12:49 AM
Like Liam mentioned, the steps are on a few websites: here they are...
Here's how you get your system to see the Z1.

1. Go to Control Panel/System/Device Manager
2. Click on the AVC devices, you'll see a connected device
3. Right click, choose UpDate Driver. You want to MANUALLY search for the new driver
4. Browse to Sound, Video, Game controllers.
5. In there, you'll find Sony, and Sony something else, I don't recall. You want the SONY folder
6. In the Sony folder, specify the DVHS driver, and you'll be set.
ca_john wrote on 7/1/2005, 1:06 AM
Thank you,

I don't have AVC device in my Device Manager - are you using XP or W2K?

ca_john wrote on 7/1/2005, 1:20 AM
I've figured out my own problem - looking much closer at the fine print, HDV is only on XP SP2.

I'm running WIn 2K

Sorry for the stupid question.

Liam_Vegas wrote on 7/1/2005, 1:44 AM
You CAN (and some have) installed the HDV drivers on Win2K. Not sure how different the manual setup is from what was described... but it should be pretty similar.

Oh... and by the way.... you can fill in your O/S and other appropriate system specs on your profile (under My Account)... that information does help in providing more specific answers.