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logiquem wrote on 3/9/2004, 5:41 PM
Sadly, you can't directly record on the timeline as you can do with audio.You can use the Vegas capture utility for traditionnal DV capture.

My advice is : you should try Scenalyser. No other capture utility come even close to that in term of flexibility , stability and feature.
Chienworks wrote on 3/9/2004, 6:07 PM
I've captured directly from camera to hard drive using VidCap without recording on tape first. It works perfectly well. I'd record to tape as well as a backup though.
Ros wrote on 3/9/2004, 6:12 PM
I shot a concert this way, I didn't have to change my tape after 60 minutes, so I did go over 1 hour without any interruption. It worked great!
And no dropped frames as well!

rextilleon wrote on 3/9/2004, 8:19 PM
Sadly you can do it---!
riredale wrote on 3/9/2004, 11:47 PM
That is really cool. It never occurred to me that I could stream live video over firewire to Scenalyzer. I could set up my laptop, put on a couple of 200GB firewire drives, and Scenalyzer would stream the video to each drive (15 hours worth!) and then automatically switch to the next drive.

Offhand I can't think of a reason to do so, but it's nice to know it COULD be done.
rs170a wrote on 3/10/2004, 12:09 AM
Thanks for all the replies. I was pretty sure it could be done but confirmation from those who have is always good.

Mike
craftech wrote on 3/10/2004, 5:15 AM
If you are on location and have the room for a laptop, you could also connect your camera to a DV deck if you have one. I sometimes do that with my deck (which takes full size DV tapes) to get around the biggest limitation of miniDV...................the tapes are too short.
Then you can just capture the full size DV tape via firewire into Vegas.

I have also done this with a VHS deck to save time if the end product is to be an unedited VHS tape copy of an event. That saves a LOT of time and expense under those uncommon circumstances.

John
jetdv wrote on 3/10/2004, 8:32 AM
Yep. Do this EVERY week.