"I have a capturer card in M-JPg format and need to know the best M-jpg codec so that Vegas recognize the captured archives and to be able to work with..."

I may have misread, but if the problem is Vegas not understanding the codec that came with or is native to your capture card, then the answer would be to fix or enable the codec install in windows so that Vegas could deal with it. To help you there, I think we'll need more info on what card, codec etc... You normally wouldn't want to re-encode the video to another format just to edit it in Vegas as this would reduce quality.

If you have the option to capture with any codec, and if you're talking about analog capture, and if you're asking about something fast enough to write the stream to disk, then it becomes a matter of preferences. Some like Morgan, others picvideo, and HUFFYUV is probably king (not to forget free).

FWIW, Matrox as suggested may work too - didn't/don't list it as the mention of that company gives me all sorts of negative, hostile, violent, destructive, and otherwise not cool inspiration.

I have a Pinnacle DC10 capture card that captures in MJPEG format. You can get Morgan Multimedia codec that loads into windows, and then VV4 will recognize the clip and import it into the program. I thing Lead systems also has a similar codec

Thanks to all.
I believe that will use Main Concept codec since Vegas include others of the same company and with them I have obtained good results.
Bye....

DigiMortal

I'm using a DC10+ too, together with MainConcept and Pegasus PICVideo codec. PICVideo seems to give better results (I'm usually using it for rendering), but sometimes it crashes Vegas - MainConcept seems to be more stable. So I'm switching between the two (PICVideo can be enabled/disabled by its GUI, or by registry mods).

Note: One problem is that, even if Vegas is recognizing the codec correctly, interlacing is often not activated (DC10+ is upper-field-first. In order to fix this, load one clip into Vegas, go to its properties dialog box ("Media" tab), set it to "Upper field first", and then click on the save button (the square with the floppy symbol), so Vegas will automatically apply these settings for all other media of the same kind. This only works if all your media really ARE the same! This is not necessarily the case, because some capturing tools (like Pinnacle's Studio8) fix video/audio-sync-problems by slightly modifying the frame rate of the video stream, so clips (in my case PAL) are not always 25fps, but sometimes 24.99 or 25.005fps etc. Unfortunately, this prevents Vegas auto-recognition feature, so you'd need a script in order to change all media to lower-field-first after importing. It can be prevented by capturing using VirtualDub or AVI_IO (under W98SE). This is a - to my knowledge still unsolved - problem of the Studio8 capturing module. Of course it doesn't apply to other MJPEG capturing devices (like DC30).

Hope this helps,

Dust

Hello!

Hey DUST!!!

Reading your post, you seem to have guessed my problems.
Exactly I have a Dc-10+ (Pinnacle Studio A/V version 8) and at the moment me it found passing one VHS tape (ntsc) to my PC to edit with Vegas, but when seeing the captured video this has the problems of interlacing. Applying what you say in post, profit to reduce something of the problem; but my question is ¿how to manage to obtain the best quality of video to render?, ¿how I must set Vegas?. Now I need to create a VCD ntsc, but, ¿ in the case of s-vcd and dvd?.
I am new in this of the video edition and I already have certain knowledge, but always I like to learn to be able to make works of quality.

Thanks for your time...

Greetings.

DigiMortal..



...sorry for my english.