Trouble importing HD files from Sony FX1 into Sony

Coverall wrote on 5/1/2007, 9:20 AM

I filmed a wedding this past Saturday with my Sony HDR-FX1 in the HDV1080i format. I am having problems capturing the files is my Sony Vegas 6.0. I have changed the properties in the software to 1080-60i. Them I clicked the capture in HD box which opened the internal HD capture field. I picked the appropriate folder to place the files, connected the device (camera). The sotware recognized it. The problem begins when I hit the red/record/capture button. The camera begins the playback but the software freezes evertime. I have a fairly heafty system with 2 gigs of RAM and 500gig harddrive.

Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong?
Do I need a better video card?
What should my camera settings be to import the video (i link etc..)

I look forward to an appreciate your help!

tim@coverallproductions.com

Comments

mdopp wrote on 5/1/2007, 11:18 AM

Tim, from what you are writing there is no obvious problem.
Please try to capture using HDVSPLIT instead of Vegas and see if that does the job:
http://strony.aster.pl/paviko/hdvsplit.htm

Wolfgang S. wrote on 5/1/2007, 11:29 AM

With Vegas 6, you will not be happy with HDV - Vegas 6 crashes with 60 or 80 m2t-files, and the preview capabilities for HDV are very poor. You should think about to upgrade to Vegas 7, if you wish to edit HDV with Vegas really.