Vegas suddenly stops recognizing DV Camera

earthrisers wrote on 1/3/2002, 11:07 AM

Using Vegas 3.0 on my Pentium3 933Mhz system, I merrily captured a couple of hours of video clips, did my editing and rendering, and printed my project back to tape.
Next morning, I went to start on the next project. Suddenly Vegas declares that I have no DV Camera. Rebooting, etc. doesn't help.
I still have the install-file for Video Capture 2.0e. I installed that, and it works just fine.
Howcome the old Video Capture 2.0e can work properly with my Sony DV Camcorder, when Vegas 3.0 originally worked fine with it, but now denies that it exists????????
Ernie

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mayberryman wrote on 1/3/2002, 11:39 AM

I had that happen once (with my Sony camera too!). I had deleted the folder which I had directed the capture file(s) to be placed. It gave me the same errors as you describe...even though you would think it would give you a message about the directory/folder not existing. You might double check.

earthrisers wrote on 1/3/2002, 5:13 PM

Thanks, Mayberryman!!
That was EXACTLY the problem... although I wouldn't have guessed it in a million years, based on what the error message said!
As you suggested, the problem had nothing whatsoever to do with the camera. Like you, I had deleted the folder (used for my former project) where I had told the program to store captured video clips. Vegas couldn't find that folder, and so punished me by claiming that my DV camcorder didn't exist.
I pointed it to a different folder, and it recognized the camera again.
Thanks much for the tip!
Ernie

mayberryman wrote on 1/3/2002, 9:27 PM

Glad to be of assistance :)

deef wrote on 1/4/2002, 3:27 PM

Thanks for the feedback on this, we'll try to address it for the next update.

Cheesehole wrote on 1/4/2002, 6:36 PM

thank you this problem is very annoying and the erroneous error messages that come up in this situation only make things worse.

example 1:
cannot reconnect to 'no device'. this error comes up as soon as you it the vid-cap button in vv3.

example 2:
cannot load project.vidcap, the format is incorrect.

when really the capture folder has been removed from the pc. this is the next error that comes up

example 3:
No Device Detected

when really the capture folder is set incorrectly.

these error messages are so far off base that i knew right away they were a result of poor error detection in the software, but if i hadn't been on this forum i'd be SOL.

- ben (cheesehole)