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rmack350 wrote on 4/20/2004, 2:06 PM
I think it depends on the device. Of course you can have a deck/camera and a drive attached but Vegas and vidcap only allow you to choose one device for playback and capture.

I don't think it really matters though. For what you want you just connect the monitor to a composite output of the deck or camera. It's the same thing. The camera/deck is converting DV to analog. You don't need two connections.

Maybe you want to compare side by side camera analog to Vegas's output?

Rob Mack
taliesin wrote on 4/20/2004, 2:09 PM
But you can have several instances of VidCap opened and running, don't you!? So maybe this is the way to do it.

Marco
rmack350 wrote on 4/20/2004, 3:34 PM
I can't really think of a reason why you'd want to do this except for an overly complicated confidence check.

Rob
WhyBe wrote on 4/20/2004, 8:09 PM
What I need to do is capture material from a Composite to Firewire convertor and at the same time use Vegas to play back certain events on the timeline through another Firewire to Composite device. What I am capturing and what I want to playback are completely unrelated data.

One is a DV capture of a church service while the other will be used to display certain timelined video/text events through "Preview on external monitor."

Befire I went out to purchase a secondary Firewire to Composite convertor, I wanted to make sure I could access them independently.
Chienworks wrote on 4/20/2004, 8:27 PM
Disclaimer! This could simply be due the combination of particular devices i have and may or may not be representative of other situations.

I've got a SONY DVMC-DA2 A/V->DV converter and a Panasonic PV-DV900 camcorder. When i connect both devices through firewire at the same time VidCap 4.0 shows two "Microsoft DV Camera or VCR" entries in it's pulldown menu, but won't communicate with either one. I have to turn one of them off to be able to talk to the other.

In your situation, i'd recommend finding a way to swing for a second computer somehow. I think it would simplify your job as well as solving the firewire device problem.
WhyBe wrote on 4/20/2004, 8:48 PM
Chienworks,
Are both of those devices on the same firewire card?
jbrawn wrote on 4/20/2004, 10:59 PM
Same disclaimer as above!

I have a Sony DCR-PC101 Camcorder and a Canopus ADVC-100. The other day I was capturing DV from the camcorder and forgot to disconnect the Canopus converter. The DV capture worked correctly to the PC, and the analog video monitor connected to the Canopus showed the capture in progress.

I suspect that the specific behaviour of two "Microsoft DV Camera or VCR" devices depends greatly on which specific devices you have.

In your situation, I suspect you would be much better off with two PCs.

Good Luck,

John.
Chienworks wrote on 4/21/2004, 1:08 PM
WhyBe: yes they are. I've only got a single, 3 port card in my computer.