Registry enhancement for Vegas6 video capture

Tech Diver wrote on 5/1/2006, 7:13 AM

If you do DV video capture in Vegas 6.0 you are no doubt familiar with the standalone program entitled Sony Video Capture 6.0. Once you have captured your video, the program allows you to save your capture session in project files that end with the extension ".SFVIDCAP". Unlike ".VEG" and ".DAR" files that you can double-click to automatically open them, the Vegas installation never created an association for the ".SFVIDCAP" files, nor did it associate an icon with this type of file for easy visual identification.

The following text is the modification I have made to my Windows Registry so I can more closely integrate Sony Video Capture 6.0 with the rest of the Vegas suite. If you want to implement this yourself, just open up "Notepad" and copy all the text between the ######## markers into a file of any name that ends in the extension ".reg" (not ".txt"). By double clicking on the ".reg" file, you will automatically add its contents to the Windows Registry. The change is immediate and you do not have to reboot to see these enhancements. If you don't understand what these registry additions mean, I will be glad to explain them line by line. NOTE: This is specific to Vegas version 6.0 only.

###########
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.SFVIDCAP]
@="Vegas Video Capture"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Vegas Video Capture]
@="SFVIDCAP File"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Vegas Video Capture\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Program Files\\Sony\\Vegas 6.0\\vidcap60.exe,0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Vegas Video Capture\shell]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Vegas Video Capture\shell\Open]
@="Open"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Vegas Video Capture\shell\Open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Sony\\Vegas 6.0\\vidcap60.exe\" \"%1\""

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Comments

Tech Diver wrote on 5/1/2006, 7:25 AM

I forgot to mention that this assumes you have installed Vegas 6 on your "C" drive. If your installation is in another location, it's pretty straight-forward to figure out which lines of registry instructions need to be modified.

Cliff Etzel wrote on 5/1/2006, 7:49 AM

Hey Tech Diver - is your screen name literal???

If so, email me...

Cliff

Tech Diver wrote on 5/1/2006, 7:59 AM

Yes, it is literal - I am a technical diver. I'll email you with the details.
Peter

DrLumen wrote on 5/1/2006, 12:37 PM

FYI, for those people that don't want to dive (sorry) into the registry, you can do about the same thing by right clicking on a clip with sfvidcap extension, click on "Open With..." and select Vegas from the list and check "Always use..." and click OK. If Vegas does not appear in the upper list you can browse to the vegas exe file.

It will default to the Sony Vegas icon. If you want to change the icon for this file type, you can right click the icon and then go to Properties and then "Change Icon". However, this won't change the icon for every icon for this file type but just that particular instance.

Just another way...

Tech Diver wrote on 5/1/2006, 2:14 PM

Yes, that is another way with similar, but not identical assocications. Actually it is better not to select Vegas as the application, but instead select:
C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas 6.0\vidcap60.exe
which is the Vegas Video Capture program itself.

This same file should also be selected as the source of the Icon if that association is not automatically made.