Vegas Video 3 and Canopus Raptor

Apocrypha wrote on 12/3/2001, 12:22 PM
Hi

I'm a proud owner of a Canopus Raptor capture card with Raptor bay and have a few questions about a marriage between the Raptor and Video Vegas 3.

1) When capturing using a Raptor is there a 2gig limitation using the Vegas Codec? Canopus uses avi reference files after 2gigs and I can fill up my hard drive with footage.

2) Is there a 2gig limitation with the Vegas Codec using an OHCI board ?

3) Does VV3 work with a non OHCI board like the Raptor?
Will I be able to view the footage on an external monitor through my camera as I can with Premiere?

Thank you in advance for providing the answers

- - - Eli

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Cheesehole wrote on 12/3/2001, 4:25 PM
1) When capturing using a Raptor is there a 2gig limitation using the Vegas Codec? Canopus uses avi reference files after 2gigs and I can fill up my hard drive with footage.
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Vegas cannot capture using your Raptor card. that is proprietary hardware that can only be used by Raptor software. the best solution is to get an OHCI compliant 1394 card. capturing through an OHCI card does not use a codec. you are transfering the DV data from your camera to your hard drive, like a file copy. the Vegas capture program has a feature that will allow you to fill your hard drive without any limitations. (see answer 2.) you can still use your raptor card to capture footage to use in Vegas of course... and you can render from Vegas and use your Raptor to print to tape. but you won't be able to use the new print to tape from timeline function in Vegas unless you have a standard OHCI card.

2) Is there a 2gig limitation with the Vegas Codec using an OHCI board ?
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again, capturing DV over Firewire (OHCI board) doesn't use a codec. the 2 gig limitation is in your file system itself. if you are using FAT or FAT32 you'll be limited. if you have Win2k or XP, you can format your drive as NTFS and have no file size limitation. in either case, the Vegas capture program can capture as much data as you need, utilizing a special feature to create multiple 2 gig or 4 gig files on the older FAT/FAT32 file systems.

3) Does VV3 work with a non OHCI board like the Raptor?
Will I be able to view the footage on an external monitor through my camera as I can with Premiere?
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no. but OHCI cards are only $50-$75 USD. (mine is SIIG and works good) you'll also have the option of using Firewire hard drives if you get an OHCI card.

just to be clear, you can capture footage with your Raptor card and edit it in Vegas and then render it and print to tape with your Raptor card. but Vegas software cannot use your Raptor card directly, so you'll be missing out on some cool features if you don't get an OHCI card.

- ben (cheesehole)