Having been up to the small hours of the morning capturing video and then done some trouble shooting on this problem all I can say is I'm not a happy chappy.
Using VidCap 50 to capture PAL DB from J30 here's what I'm finding.
The audio is ending up as 16/32K according to Vegas and SF, no wonder it sounds horrid during capture, VidCap sets the audio device at 48K! Switching project property to 32K at least means it plays back right from the T/L.
So thinking maybe the J30 is to blame and checking settings and manual and extensive Googling we ran some tests. Connected 1394 port of J30 to Miranda DV bridge. Playout tape and the bridge reports audio as 48K, as advertised, switch J30 to Channels 1/2/3/4 and as advertised according to DV Bridge audio changes to 32K. Conclusion, J30 works correctly.
So this leads to the obvious question, how the hell is Vegas able to convince the deck to output audio at 32K, or is it, is VidCap somehow managing to screw around with the audio, that'd not seem likely, it'd have to be resampling on the fly which I seriously doubt.
The only test I've yet to try is switching off DV Device control and doing a crash capture, maybe, just maybe something is odd in the command sequence that VidCap is sending to the deck. Again rather unlikely. Whatever this problem is I'd rate it as pretty serious and I've gone back and checked previous captures on another system from a J30 and they're the same oddball 16/32K audio.
Worse still I've got a suspicion this isn't just happening with the J30s as well, I seem to regulalry end up with 16/32K audio out of my DSR-11 from camera tapes out of cameras that can't even record 32K audio as far as I know.
I've lodged a support request but I'm hoping others can confirm this issue, up until now I always wondered why so many Vegas users don't use VidCap as I;d never had an issue with it, that's sure come back to bite me.
Bob.
Using VidCap 50 to capture PAL DB from J30 here's what I'm finding.
The audio is ending up as 16/32K according to Vegas and SF, no wonder it sounds horrid during capture, VidCap sets the audio device at 48K! Switching project property to 32K at least means it plays back right from the T/L.
So thinking maybe the J30 is to blame and checking settings and manual and extensive Googling we ran some tests. Connected 1394 port of J30 to Miranda DV bridge. Playout tape and the bridge reports audio as 48K, as advertised, switch J30 to Channels 1/2/3/4 and as advertised according to DV Bridge audio changes to 32K. Conclusion, J30 works correctly.
So this leads to the obvious question, how the hell is Vegas able to convince the deck to output audio at 32K, or is it, is VidCap somehow managing to screw around with the audio, that'd not seem likely, it'd have to be resampling on the fly which I seriously doubt.
The only test I've yet to try is switching off DV Device control and doing a crash capture, maybe, just maybe something is odd in the command sequence that VidCap is sending to the deck. Again rather unlikely. Whatever this problem is I'd rate it as pretty serious and I've gone back and checked previous captures on another system from a J30 and they're the same oddball 16/32K audio.
Worse still I've got a suspicion this isn't just happening with the J30s as well, I seem to regulalry end up with 16/32K audio out of my DSR-11 from camera tapes out of cameras that can't even record 32K audio as far as I know.
I've lodged a support request but I'm hoping others can confirm this issue, up until now I always wondered why so many Vegas users don't use VidCap as I;d never had an issue with it, that's sure come back to bite me.
Bob.