Pinnacle DV 300 and Vegas 4

kop11 wrote on 4/11/2003, 1:20 PM

Just downloaded the demo of Vegas 4 to try it out but.. beginners trouble...

I cannot capture from my camera, Vegas just says "please connect a device".

I am using my old Pinnacle DV300 (same as the DV200) could it be that firewire on a video card is not the same as a cheapo firewire? I already installed the NEC and Ti 1394 drivers, but the DV300 won´t work with them. What shall I do? Get a cheap and naked 1394-card and throw my old and good DV300 away?

Maybe someone had the same problem and can help me, I have 16 tapes that should get on my harddisk better sooner than later.

Cheers, Peter

Win2000, 512mb RAM, plenty of HD and all works fine with Premiere.. BUT I WANT TO TRY VEGAS!!!

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VIDEOGRAM wrote on 4/11/2003, 5:52 PM

Hi Peter,

I have the same setup. I used to edit with Premiere on a DV300 card. I now edit with V4. V4 will not recognise the DV300 because it is not OHCI compliant.
I therefore capture my clips with DVTools and edit them. The print to tape is done threw Premiere.
I have a "cheap" OHCI card on the shelv but I won't install it: my system is very stable right now and I earn a living doing this. I currently have 7 or 8 $$$ projects in the machine and don't wan't to go down by installing another piece of hardware and lose $$$.
But it gives me a weird problem. When I render in V4, I have to apply the color corrector "computer RGB to studio RGB" to the output so my IRE values stay the same. Also, being on WIN 98, I have to uncheck the "open DMA 2.0" box or else Premiere (or Sound Forge for this matter) will not see the new rendered clip proprely.
All of this makes rendering longer but it works.
I'll install the OHCI card eventually and this should solve the IRE problem.

Gilles

rextilleon wrote on 4/11/2003, 7:05 PM

Thats seems like a major hassle when all you have to do is buy an ADS or other OCHI complient card, open the case and throw it in an available slot---It takes all of ten minutes---

kop11 wrote on 4/12/2003, 3:54 PM

Thanks for the help guys. I already took out the dv300 and put in a OHCI card. Seems to work fine.

What you should definately NOT do: Install a firewire card AND the dv300... I tried and the whole system got stuck, took me almost 2hrs to fix it again.

VIDEOGRAM wrote on 4/12/2003, 6:54 PM

I spent the day doing a drive image (10 CD's). I may try and throw in the Pyro Firewire card tomorrow.
I'm kind of tired of all this rendering for nothing ...

Gilles