V7 capture & sound problems

rique wrote on 9/17/2006, 9:57 AM
When I launch Vegas 7's capture tool it hangs for the longest time before it recognizes my camera, takes a long time to give me the option to capture the whole tape or to capture from current position, etc., and then gives only occasional still frames in the preview window, and captures a continous shot as a series of same sized files rather than one continuous file, It then takes forever to stop capturing. BUT Vegas 6 still captures fine!

Another thing Vegas 7 does is keep control of my sound card after I close V7 down. I cannot use WMP, Quicktime, or DivX players because there is no sound. I have to reboot to free my sound card up again. Again, no problem with Veges 6 in this regard.

I sometimes had these problems with previous versions but 6d was solid. Any ideas?


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Spot|DSE wrote on 9/17/2006, 10:07 AM
You've got something mis-set in your capture prefs if you're getting frames instead of clips. Vegas 7 should not keep control of your sound card or whatever...there must be something else happening, or again..you've got something strange set up.
Running 11 systems plus 2 laptops with V7 on all of them, various bottom to top configurations, and not one of them exhibits what you're suggesting.
More information? Antivirus? resource shares, etc might help track it down.
rique wrote on 9/17/2006, 10:27 AM
I'm not capturing frames, I'm getting video clips but they are broken up into smaller files when they should be captured as one large file. I did a disk scan and then defragmented but no go. Worked fine in V6 before that anyway.

My comment about still frames was in regard to the capture display window. Rather than smooth video I'm getting such slow display in the capture display window that it looks like still frames. Every so often it catches up to the current part of the tape being captured.

The settings in V7 are identical to V6. Same anti-virus and other background programs runnng with no problem. I tried switching them off and used EndItAll but that didn't help. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Didn't help.

I'm at a loss to understand how my computer's settings allow 6 to work fine but not 7, especially since it looks like V7 is still using the V6 capture tool.
Jay-Hancock wrote on 9/17/2006, 10:29 AM
Vegas 7 added scene detection for capture. Be sure to turn that off if you want one large file.
rique wrote on 9/17/2006, 11:41 AM
Thanks for the suggestion but it wasn't scene detection. I was getting files that leapfrogged in size from 140,925kb to 141,049kb alternately with the breaks hapening even during static shots and continuous timecode.

The problem is incompatability with my Terratec sound card. When I switch the Audio device to "Microsoft Sound Mapper" I can capture without problems, but with it set to "ASIO for DMX 6fire 24/96" I get these problems: Approx.30 seconds to detect my camera. Approx. 30 seconds after the tape starts moving to actually start capturing video, 30-40 seconds of capture before it breaks the capture into a new file, This would also explain the problem with it not giving me my sound back after closing Vegas 7.

Thing is, I can use the "ASIO for DMX 6fire 24/96" setting in Vegas 6 and capture just fine so this is a Vegas 7 problem of not being compatible with that card.
Grazie wrote on 9/18/2006, 12:39 AM
Jayster?

Vegas 7 added scene detection for capture.

I've had this in all Vegas incarnations I've used? Or is this relating to something else?