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Boy, that was helpful.

Rob

Nothing else open, thats error message.
Just tried opening it after install.
HDV capture [internal] working

OK, chum, I have no idea what any of that means. It may assist others though. Try sending that to SONY. In the meantime can you answer any of my questions to you.

Just trying to help - yeah?

Have you tried the V5, V6 and V7 Vidcap??

To the best of my knowledge they are all one and the same however...

Bob.

Good call Bob!

hmmm, all same error, will try a reboot, I hate when that 'fixes' problems....

[edit] Nope... reboot not helping either... really scratching my head over it...

Thanks for all suggestions!

Yeah, it's VidCap60.exe (version 6b) that gets installed with Vegas 7a. Does that mean that we can expect (hope for) a real VidCap70 at a later date (the sooner the better!).

Excuse my possibly quite useless questions.

Are you starting Vidcap.exe standalone or from within Vegas?

I can't imagine how that'd make any difference but it might at least get you capturing again.

Hm, what do VidCap and Vegas have in common, maybe the preview window driver / dll thing and that's I think changed in V7, that'd explain why all installs of VidCap are being hosed, maybe?

Bob.

Yeah, it's VidCap60.exe (version 6b) that gets installed with Vegas 7a. Does that mean that we can expect (hope for) a real VidCap70 at a later date (the sooner the better!).
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After having video capture problems with every VidCap up to version 4 (my current version) and then reading about the problems persisting in Vegas 5 and 6 one can safely assume that this falls into the category of another problem Sony doesn't deem important.

I finally listened to John Meyer and got Scenalyzer. It's GREAT.

Anyone know if they have yet again ignored updating the titler, credit roll generator, or revizing the workflow and editor?

John

John you negative nellie (pot calling kettle black) ,download and check it out .This release seems pretty solid so far to me. Dont think you will like the titler, I think that horse is dead ,but plenty of options out there for making titles .

I was recently having lots of problems (in V6d) capturing using Video Capture as a standalone. I worked with Sony tech support, but we couldn't isolate the problem.

Launching it from the Project Media window inside Vegas worked fine, so that's what I do now.

I have Scenalyzer and it seems to work well, but I find it's interface and internal logic very confusing. I can never get the hang of how to mark in and out points on a tape, and batch capture just those clips. It always seems to want to either capture the whole tape, or make its own clips based on its various automatic scene-detection methods. I've also had Scenalyzer chugging away, looking for all the world like its capturing to disk, and then finding out there's nothing there. Probably my error, somehow, but I don't trust it.

Also, can you still "recapture offline media" from within Vegas if you use Scenalyzer as your capture tool? This is a very important feature for me.

I'm not sure I understand this issue. The Vidcap that shipped with Vegas 7 is the exact same version that shipped with Vegas 6. In any case, it is likely to have more to do with the specific hardware (and other non-Sony software that's installed) than it does with the version of Vegas. One option would be to try to run Vidcap without Vegas running and see if that makes a difference.

I did a capture yesterday without problems. So it works, sometimes.

Rob Mack

Vid cap not working even as standalone, prior to install V7, worked fine in 5, 6.
Waitng to hear from SONY.

This little bug won't stop me from upgrading!

You're brave then. I made sure I could capture before paying for the upgrade.

Do you think that removing Vegas altogether and then reinstalling might help?

Maybe move the last used vidcap file so that vidcap can't find it?

Rob