Problem Capturing in Vegas 4.0c

fdooman wrote on 6/5/2003, 4:51 PM
I’m trying to capture from analog SVHS VCR using Canopus ADVC 100 for some reason during a capture picture freezes and I have to reboot. I moved the NEC firewire card to other place so far is working. But other problem I have is I don’t see the box to name the clip before I capture. I used to see that every time I click on capture Icon and would automatically lunch that box to name the clip but I don’t see that anymore. I have to do that manually by going to properties. I would thank any help.

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kkolbo wrote on 6/5/2003, 6:21 PM
When I changed to 4.0c I couldn't capture at all. I can print to tape. It locks up the application and I have to reboot if I try to capture. There was time between the update and the first capture so it may just be coincedental, not a Vegas problem. I am having to do a complete OS reload to try to fix it. It appears what ever happened screwed a Windows system file. Even MS Movie maker couldn't capture anymore.

I am going to try reloading an older version, capturing and then load 4.0c and see if the problem reoccurs. That will be a couple of days though. A complete system reload like this will take two days to do, before I will have Vegas back up to use. Urrggggg.

SoFo. Just so that you know, I will do the reload and the upgrade process check because the Vegas version change may not be the culprit. I will not assume it was Vegas, because it is VERY rare that a SoFo product would be at the bottom of this. You guys do things too well.
ghost_horse wrote on 6/5/2003, 6:56 PM
hey I was wondering what firewire card you have and if it matters much for quality and so on...

I'm getting the ADVC 500 soon
and was wondering what your setup was

thanx in advance
anyones help would be appreaciated!
kkolbo wrote on 6/5/2003, 9:59 PM
I have a generic firewire card plus the port on the Audigy. You need two seperate firewire cards if you want to render to and from a firewire drive while sending images out to an external preview.

I use the ADVC 100 and it is wonderful.
K
fdooman wrote on 6/5/2003, 10:37 PM
I have Nec on one pc and Adaptec at the other. The one I had problem earlyer is the one with NEC firewire card and is builed by my self. is P4 2.26 mhz 533 bus. with Asus board model P4B533 768 ddr memory two IBM hard drives.(It is very imported to have 2 hard drives) One hard drive just to capture video and you will never going to have frame drops. Also Evga Nvidia chip set 128mb ddr memory video card and Pioneer DVD-R model A05. This system works great for me and the earlyer problem was due to IRQ . and is fixed now by moving the firewire to other slot. and since than I have been capturing with no problem. I hope this will help you.
kkolbo wrote on 6/6/2003, 12:35 AM
I suspect something else toasted my capture. I am in the middle of reloading the OS now. I need to do that every year anyway. I just have been lazy.

Glad you are up and running!

Keith
ghost_horse wrote on 6/6/2003, 7:09 PM
so I need two firewire ports to monitor ?

with the advc 500?

fdooman wrote on 6/7/2003, 11:17 AM
Not sure, Since I'm use Cacopus ADVC 100
kkolbo wrote on 6/8/2003, 9:58 PM
No, what I was saying is that if you have the video files coming from a firewire drive at the same time you are monitoring, you need two cards. One card does not seem to be able to handle the in and out at the same time.

K
SoFo may differ with this opinion, but considering the low cost of a FW card, it's no big deal.

kkolbo wrote on 6/8/2003, 10:00 PM
Here is the final verdict. Vegas was not the cause of the problem. Something else trashed my VFWww32.dll. I have reloaded and all is well. As usual, Vegas is a rock and I can't find anything to blame on it .

millertime83 wrote on 6/8/2003, 10:27 PM
Has anyone had any problem with interlacing when they capture. In my final print to tape, there is a lot of motion blur whenever the camera moves, and the interlacing is noticable when scenes change.