Vegas Pro 19 - Video capture not capturing...

Jonathan-Burnett wrote on 12/15/2024, 12:56 PM

It's been many years since I last tried to use Vegas to capture video from a firewire-connected camcorder, so I'm trying to do so now from Vegas Pro 19. The camcorder shows that it sees it is connected to a firewire device. The PC sees a firewire device connected. Vegas Pro, when I launch Capture, sees the camcorder.

But when I initiate record, and then playback on the camcorder, nothing ever appears beyond this screen in Vegas and nothing is actually captured. I see the playback on the camcorder's screen but that's it.

I'm I overlooking something?

Thank you,
Jonathan

Comments

jetdv wrote on 12/15/2024, 1:11 PM

If you're trying to capture DV, I'd try this:

http://www.scenalyzer.com/

 

3POINT wrote on 12/15/2024, 2:50 PM

Seems to me that @Jonathan-Burnett wants to capture from a HDV camcorder and not a DV camcorder. For capturing HDV I would recommend HDVsplit.

Steve_Rhoden wrote on 12/15/2024, 7:12 PM

@Jonathan-Burnett HDV Split is also what i would recommend you use. https://www.videohelp.com/download/HDVSplit.0.77StaticBeta.zip

For DV captures, WinDV was the ultimate best for me back in the day. http://windv.mourek.cz/

 

Jonathan-Burnett wrote on 12/15/2024, 8:24 PM

I'm definitely trying to capture HD videos from this Canon Vixia HV30 camera. I've tried each of the other suggestions (Scenalyzer and HDV Split) and both of them are able to control the camera (start & stop playback) but both report no video coming in. HDV Split complains it can't find an MPEG2 codec and I installed the one it suggested but I still get that same error message, hence nothing can be previewed, if indeed anything is coming from the camera. I've been able to capture from it before but that was YEARS ago with a much older version of Vegas and on a different computer. I'm starting to wonder if the issue could be my firewire card? Again, new computer and Windows 11 Pro...

EricLNZ wrote on 12/15/2024, 10:36 PM

I'm starting to wonder if the issue could be my firewire card?

Rings a bell. Search the forum as I'm sure there's something about using a legacy driver?

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 12/17/2024, 11:26 AM

@Jonathan-Burnett I did a capture to a firewire card recently from an old Canon camera with vp19 and it went fine. Make sure Enable Video Capture is checked in the Vegas 19 Preferences/Deprecated Features tab. I used the 1394 capture card that I usually use with firewire audio devices. As I recall, I had to originally choose a firewire card containing a Texas Instruments chip and install the Microsoft driver to get it to work with win10. If you look at your card, you should be able to see if the logo on the main chip that is a miniature image of the State of Texas. I think the ones I have are from StarTech but any card with the TI chip should work. I see StarTech has current and legacy builds of the Microsoft 1394 driver for download on their website... if you ever updated win10 or use win11, the current version should install without error.

Jonathan-Burnett wrote on 12/17/2024, 11:58 AM

Thank you Howard! I had not thought to check on the preferences and when I did, indeed capture was not enabled. After doing so, it does appear to be capturing what I'm playing and saving it to an MP4 file type.

Unlike the other tools, this capture seems to have no controls for operating the camcorder except to turn on recording on the PC and me pressing play on the Canon.

I did investigate my prior success and that was back in 2010 using Vegas 10. In those days, it actually saved each recording with its separate clip ID. Don't remember much else about the environment but presumably Windows XP. Probably had the Canon CDROM-provided drivers installed. Can't find that CD right now and none of those files are available to download from Canon any longer...