Vegas 4.0

samiam3 wrote on 9/10/2004, 6:21 PM
I am a newbe to Vegas 4. I have four other video capture programs on my machine.
I can capture video from tapes in my Sony DSR-25 and save them save them as mpeg's.
I have yet to be able to capture a project in V4 and save it in anything but ".sfvidcap"
Which when you try to edit the file - I get error message that my file is an unsupported
format. Dah . . . . .
HELP !
anyone

Sam G.

Comments

GaryKleiner wrote on 9/10/2004, 6:44 PM
The .sfvidcap file is only information about the video capture (logged clips, etc), NOT the video files themselves which are saved as .avi files.

Gary
samiam3 wrote on 9/10/2004, 7:11 PM
Gary,

Thanks for the lead to avi files. I found them.
But, they are not where I'd like them. What "properties" designates where
I'd really want them to be - like, not in "documents and settings"
on my primary drive. I'd rather they be on my 250gb storage drive.

Can you help again

Thanks,

Sam G.
Chienworks wrote on 9/10/2004, 7:16 PM
In VidCap, go to Options / Preferences / Disk Management. You can add/delete folders to be used when capturing. Unfortunately you cannot create a new folder from this screen, so you'll have to make sure the folder you want to use already exists.
swarrine wrote on 9/10/2004, 8:29 PM
I think what you want is what I tell my students is the legacy "hidden secret of Vegas file placement". It is one of the things that people love to hate about Vegas because it does not make sense and no logic was applied when it was programmed.

If any programmers are reading this they now hate me and I say good because logic failed them and 3 versions of Vegas later there has been no improvement. (Rant over)

Breath.

The answer to your problem (I suspect) is file> capture video>options>preferences>disk management><sigh>double click and set your new capture location. It is ass backwards, totally wrong and probably has been this way since day one. That is what us critics call legacy programming. If it is already in, it is almost impossible to get out despite any logic or common sense. (rant over, again)