How do you capture HDV?

philfort wrote on 7/29/2005, 3:30 PM

I did it yesterday, but I can't seem to do it today.

When I choose "Capture Video", a dialog comes up, and I choose "use internal video capture (HDV/SDI)". Then nothing happens. No windows open.

(using the latest Vegas 6)

Am I missing something?

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philfort wrote on 7/29/2005, 3:42 PM

Ok, so if I run Vegas with admin rights, then it works.

I know it worked yesterday as a limited user though - pretty lame.

bug1: the default capture folder suggested by the program doesn't even exist on my machine. Nice ugly error message if you try to capture.
bug2: when you browse to pick a new capture folder, it doesn't automatically get selected in the Capture Folder box.
bug3: the capture app no longer works as limited user - dunno what changed. Why are apps so bad with this? C'mon Sony, get with the program! (And not even any kind of error message, just silent failure).

farss wrote on 7/29/2005, 4:08 PM

Most of the 'bugs' sound more like Windoz issues than Vegas problems. Remember that Vegas is a 'well behaved' windows app, sometimes that can cause a bit of grief when the OS has other ideas.
Bob.

philfort wrote on 7/31/2005, 11:01 AM

They seem like Vegas bugs to me - not sure why it would have anything to do with windows.

I put Vegas under the debugger and saw it was trying to open this file under my user profile:
Application Data\Sony\Vegas\6.0\Sony_Capture_Capture.settings

I deleted that file, and now it works fine again.

I'll post again if I can find out what it was in particular that was causing the problem.