Studio sees DV, Vegas doesn't?

wysocki wrote on 7/29/2004, 11:53 AM
I have Studio9 and Vegas5 on a Win2k machine. I'm evaluating switching to Vegas because of instability in Studio. Anyway, I have a Sony miniDV attached with a Via 1394 firewire. Studio can capture from it and write output to it. In Vegas, if I select it in the Options, video device, it DOES say it's "connected", but I can't capture nor write to it. The capture Video menu has DVcam Capture (which I have selected) but it just doesn't see any video coming in. I tried setting it to the other choice, Cirrus Logic USB-DVR2 Source (which I have no idea of what this is) but it says it can't find it.

I've tried replacing the 1394 drivers with via, pci, and others (can't find the msdv drivers anywhere). Why can Studio see the camcorder but not Vegas?

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donp wrote on 7/29/2004, 5:57 PM
Vegas can use virtually any OCHI compliant 1394 capture device, I use a Canopus AVDC-1394 card. Pinnacle, havn't used it since version 7, uses propriatary cards. Vegas sometimes cannot see them, the Pinnacle cards.
it doesn't sound like the "Cirrus Logic" thing is a 1394 device. I would advise getting an Adeptec firewire card and try that. I have one of those too and vegas see my TRV-350 D8 cam through it just fine. I use the Canopus card almost exclusively though. It also sounds like you are capturing through an onboard 1394 port. A separate firewire card would be much better I think.
Someone chime in here if they have any other suggestions.

wysocki, good luck

Don
RalphM wrote on 7/29/2004, 6:29 PM
If it is the 1394 card that came with Pinnacle Studio, then it should work. i believe that card was a Texas Instruments model.

The card I use to capture in Vegas came with the original Studio and has workd with Vegas 4 and 5.

Do you have Dv device control enabled?