Testing Trial Version Problem with Capture

foxg wrote on 12/1/2004, 7:25 PM

I'm comparing several products. With this product when I attempt to capture video and audio from my analog camera, the video comes in fine and I hear the first second of audio and then nothing. When I check on the audio options in the capture window (Sony Video Capture XPress 5.0) it's checked to use my Realtec AC97 audio input however, when I select the properties for it, I cannot save the setting to use the AUX input. The APPLY button is grayed out and the PIN LINE: is defaulted to Mono Mix. Additionally, every other check box is grayed out.

I have no problems capturing video and audio from Microsoft's MovieMaker or Pinnacle's Studio 8 or 9.

Is this possibly a limitation of the trial version?

My system is using a ECS KV2 Extreme motherboard with AMD 64 3500+ processor and the onboard AC97 Realtec audio.

Any suggestions are welcomed as I like the layout of this software but would like to get past the audio problems before plunking down the money.

Thanks.

Comments

gogiants wrote on 12/3/2004, 3:00 PM

It shouldn't be a limitation on the trial version.

I've never used an analog camera to do capture in Movie Studio, so I'm really grasping at straws here.

One thing might be to try disabling "Enable DV device control". You'll see it in Options -> Preferences -> General tab. Vidcap might be stumbling when it is interacting with your analog camera.

Worst case scenario is that you could use MovieMaker (or some other free alternative) to capture and then do all your editing in Vegas Movie Studio. I do this because I had gotten used to how capture worked in my freebie editing software that came with my capture card. Just make sure you save to DV-AVI so that the quality and editability is high!

foxg wrote on 12/3/2004, 4:18 PM

Thanks for the response. I also submitted a question to the tech support but I'm not holding my breath for a reply since it is for the trial version.

Thanks also for the suggestion on saving it in DV-AVI format. I'll give that a shot in Movie Maker and see how things go.

Aside of this, how would you, or any other forum member rate Movie Studio + DVD against Pinnacle Studio 9, Adobe or ULEAD versions.

gogiants wrote on 12/4/2004, 10:57 PM

I can only directly compare Movie Studio with ULead. And there really is no comparison! My favorite comparison point between Movie Studio and ULead is what they do with the preview window: Movie Studio has it tucked in the lower right so that you can focus on the audio and video tracks, while ULead has a HUGE preview window and a bogus timeline interface.

Movie Studio really lets you grow into doing some interesting stuff while I think most other programs pretty much stop at the "put transitions between clips" level.