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GaryKleiner wrote on 10/5/2004, 10:38 PM
No, not through the Capture Utility.

Hook up the minidisc to your computer's sound card and digitize the audio directly into the timeline. Check the Help file under Recording Audio (or check the manual) for details.

Gary
musicvid10 wrote on 10/5/2004, 10:42 PM
What is the minidisc output?
Vegas Capture records to DV format which has a video stream by default.
Scenalyzer Live will capture directly from your camcorder to .WAV format.
B.Verlik wrote on 10/5/2004, 10:43 PM
Audio is fairly easy to capture. You can put a CD in your CD drive and open Vegas. If you look at the icons above your media pool, one of them (put mouse over it) will say 'extract audio from a CD. If you push the Icon, a window will open and show you what's on the CD. You have a choice of taking one track at a time, the whole CD or a 'time range'. You can play it 1st or click OK and it will record it to a file.
Method 2 is to plug an audio cord into your Sound card and record to an audio track. (right click in timeline and choose audio track. then click record buttons on track to activate it and then to record hit the record button beneath timeline. (you'll need to read the manual to configure your sound card.)
musicvid10 wrote on 10/5/2004, 10:50 PM
TheGr8Steve,
He is talking about a minidisc recorder, a proprietary format that has no similarity to a CD player.
johnmeyer wrote on 10/5/2004, 10:51 PM
Like everything else to do with capture, the better way to go is Scenalyzer.

Just select "Audio Files Only (WAV)" and away you go. I had never actually tried it until just a moment ago, but it works perfectly. You get 48,000 Hz audio (because that is how DV encodes) WAV files, and no video.
B.Verlik wrote on 10/5/2004, 10:56 PM
I'm afraid I realized that as soon as I posted my message. I read his post too quickly and jumped right on it, only to see a couple of answers beat me to it and those answers made me re-read his post. What can I say but DUHHHHH
farss wrote on 10/5/2004, 11:17 PM
OK, this is a VIDEO forum so I suppose we should all be forgiven!
Best way if you can get a Mindisk player with SPDIF ouput then you can transfer the audio data without resampling. I don't think Sony will let you do that on the portable units, you might need a 'studio' Minidisc player.
Failing that just take the analogue audio from the player into line in on a sound card.
Open a Vegas project, insert audio track, arm for record, check levels and then rewind player and hit record on Vegas transport control. For more info check the manual / online help, it's all there.

Bob.
tailgait wrote on 10/6/2004, 12:11 AM
If you have a Canopus 50, 100 or 300 of similar analog to DV device, it makes it easy. I run a video stream from my DV camera into the VIDEO IN of my Canopus and run an audio stream (I have a stereo plug for the line out outlet that ends in two RCA (red and white) plugs which go in the two audio in areas of the Canopus. Then I run video capture in Vegas 5, start the camera and the MiniDisc player and V5 captures it all. Then I bring in into the timeline and eliminate the video. Works
Burt
B.Verlik wrote on 10/6/2004, 1:46 AM
I'm almost afraid to say anything, but you mean analog to digital, right?