"save as" pop up after capturing video?

kalabula wrote on 9/7/2007, 5:14 AM
I keep getting a window popping up after I capture video from my camcorder asking me if I want to save the default.sfvidcap. This just started popping up recently.

What is it, why's it there, can I get rid of it?

Any help would be great!

Heres what the first one lokks like:
http://s60.photobucket.com/albums/h26/kalabula/?action=view&current=sonyvegas2.jpg

Then when I close the capture window I get another:
http://s60.photobucket.com/albums/h26/kalabula/?action=view&current=sonyvegas1.jpg

Comments

jetdv wrote on 9/7/2007, 7:27 AM
Looks normal to me. It always wants to save the .sfvidcap file once you've made changes. This is an aid to recapturing later - should you need to do so.
rs170a wrote on 9/7/2007, 7:57 AM
I'm with jetdv.
II save the .sfvidcap file as a different name though and make it related to the project I'm working on.
I then save it to the same master directory that I've created for the project.

Mike
rmack350 wrote on 9/7/2007, 11:18 AM
Also, I find that it's best to get Vidcap opened and then the right sfvidcap file loaded before I do any sort of recapturing from Vegas itself. Veg files don't know what vidcap file is appropriate and will just dump new entries into whatever vidcap file happens to get loaded. Awkward.

Rob Mack
rs170a wrote on 9/7/2007, 11:55 AM
...dump new entries into whatever vidcap file happens to get loaded.

It's worse than that.
It dumps your video into the last used directory, no matter what vidcap file you open up :-(
I've been asking Sony to fix this for a VERY long time - and I'm still waiting.
Maybe it'll be fixed in Vegas 8 but I'm not holding my breath :-(

Mike
busterkeaton wrote on 9/7/2007, 11:56 AM
The .sfvidcap file is the .veg file for capture.

Capture is a Separate application. It has a separate file format to store its data.

So you have two options, save everything to the same .sfvidcap file. Or start each capture with a new .sfvidcap file and then name it according to your project.

The reason you have one of these files is you can clean the video off your hard drive. If you keep the veg file, the veg will tell you what files are missing. You then open the sfvidcap file and it will know what tapes need to be captured and it will know which files got captured. So if you only did ten min at the beginning and ten at the end, it will know that already.