I used to be able to hear sound before, but then all of a sudden its stopped working. Does anyone else have a suggestion?

Perhaps when it was working you had the audio inputs on your tv/monitor connected to the computer's sound card line out. Vegas has never included sound in the preview out to external monitor.

Maybe when you heard sound before you were in print-to-tape mode?

"Vegas has never included sound in the preview out to external monitor."

Which I hope SF will remedy in the next release. Sometimes I have to make VHS copies of a project. I have to connect my computer soundcard directly to the VCR on those occasions. To the user who thinks he/she used to have sound and now doesn't: I had the same confusion, once. What caused mine is that sound was there during video capture, so, later, I thought something was broken. Unfortunately it's not there while previewing. I'm sure SF has a good reason?

Under certain situations, when there is no other sound, open the side LCD Plate on the camcorder. That turns the sound on that is streaming through the camcorder to the external monitor, under those certain circumstances. This may solve at least part of your problem.

During preview there is no sound streaming through the camcorder. It is only coming from VV inside the computer to the computer sound card. It's not on the firewire.

2Road

<< Sometimes I have to make VHS copies of a project. I have to connect my computer soundcard directly to the VCR on those occasions. >>

Why would you need to to that????

There is no reason you should have to connect the VCR to the audio card when you have a Digital camera with passthrough and firewire card (As you must since you are using an ext monitor). Print to Tape will send audio through the Firewire out to your camera which will, in turn, send out through the passthrough to your VHS VCR. Only Preview doesn't play auido out the firewire. I think the reason for this is so you don't get an echo effect with both the computer audio and TV audio going at once. The output to the TV is most likely delayed a bit. I know this happens when I capture a TV show from my VCR hooked up to an A/D converter, so it might be true when previewing.

I am not printing to tape. I am playing (previewing) the rendered movie from VV3 timeline through the firewire into the camcorder and out to the VCR. No tape is inside the camcorder. The camcorder becomes a passthrough but the audio is not being passed through. I have to get it off the soundcard. Can the Print to Tape option be used with no tape in the camera?

OK, I understand what you are saying, but I don't think that is the proper way of doing it. I do not have a Digital Camcorder yet, so I use an Analog to Digital converter to go to and from my Hi8 camcorder or VHS VCR similar to how you use the passthrough on your camera. I am not sure if you need a tape in the camcorder to do Print to Tape through the pasthrough, but the best way to find out is by trying it.

Yes, print to tape can be used without a tape in the camera. If you choose manual control (automatically chosen when there is no tape) then you can easily print over firewire, through the camera, to another device. This process works great with my deck. If you can preview, you can passthru on print to tape.

2Road, you can do this quite easily. In VidCap, go to Options, Preferences, locate the item labeled "Enable DV Device Dontrol" and remove the checkmark. VidCap will then ignore your camera's transport/tape functions completely and simply pass the audio & video signal through firewire. This is also what you would have to do if using a separate external DV->A/V converter box.