Vegas 6c hangs on HDV capture

ianken wrote on 10/13/2005, 11:04 PM
I just built a new rig. Asus A8N SLI 2GB ram, A64X2 4400+, 2x NV 7800GT. 320GB Raid 0 for capture on NV RAID controller.

I'm not a pro. I don't make movies. I just have stuff I shoot on vacation. My move from my reliable old TRV900 to the HDR HC1 has been nothing but pain.

On the last machines things pretty much worked but dealing with HDV was slow so I built the new monster. I just installed 6c and went to capture some new stuff and it just hangs. I can kill the app in taskman, and I can fast forward and rewind. But any attempt to play or capture results in Vegas hanging. The tape starts playing on the camera and I can watch it on the LCD but as I noted above, the app hangs but not before creating a zero length file.

Any pointers/advice would be appreciated.

Comments

Yoyodyne wrote on 10/13/2005, 11:29 PM
That computer should be plenty powerful to handle HDV obviously - can you capture to the system drive or something other than the raid? Can you capture from the TRV900 o.k.?

I also had a bit of Vegas wierdness recently and did an un-install/re-install. Un-installed 6b and installed 6c - everythings been working like a champ since.

I also believe there are some people on this forum that are using theat mobo with good success (I actually plan on being one of them in a week or two).
ianken wrote on 10/13/2005, 11:50 PM
I dropped in my spare 1394 card. No different.

I know I should see the registrtion prompt for the MPEG2 decoder/encoder the first time I try this. I've seen it twice and both time it hunge when I tried to submit my reg info.

I think my problems my just be the MPEG2 codec is not registered or something. Is there a way I can register it without having to do any MEPG2 stuff to prompt the dialog?
JohnnyRoy wrote on 10/13/2005, 11:58 PM
Maybe it’s just because it is popping up during a capture. Try opening Vegas, drop a JPG or other image or AVI file on the timeline and do a Render using the MPEG codec. This should prompt for the registration in a less time-critical moment. Perhaps that will work.

I’m planning to build almost the exact same system using that mobo and AMD X2 proc so I’m really curious how to make out.

~jr
ianken wrote on 10/14/2005, 12:07 AM
That's exactly what I did and it works now.

Let me just say this if Sony folks are listening: I should have never had to do this. I started the evening around 9pm with the intent to get some batch captures done before I went to bed and instead, here it is, midnight and I just got this working.

Oh, and not having scene detection in the capture app is also quite lame.
Yoyodyne wrote on 10/14/2005, 11:08 AM
Holy cow - good catch. I completely forgot about the mpeg-2 registration. Have you reported the details to Sony tech support? I know it's a pain in the butt - but they are good cats and would appreciate the info.

Also thanks for reporting your fix
ForumAdmin wrote on 10/15/2005, 7:18 PM
Thanks for the heads up on this. I've logged it into our bug database.
billbode wrote on 11/29/2005, 1:30 PM
Try using Connect-HD. It seens to work better than Vegas capture.(which is a subset of Connect-HD).
Before starting capture, reboot system.