VegasCapture - Print to tape

Caruso wrote on 2/19/2001, 5:32 AM
I posted this in a response . . . figured I'd better post
it under it's own heading . . . please forgive the
duplication.

My problem: On the WinME side of my dual boot
configuration, VegasCapture will capture from my DV
Camcorder, play back the resulting clips, even record them
to tape, but, if I use those clips in a VegasVideo project,
then render it as an AVI, open it in VegasCapture, while I
am able to play the clip on my computer, I cannot seem to
print it to tape . . . keep getting an unknown error which,
when the details button is clicked tells me something about
the "pins" not being connected.

What am I doing wrong, and what do I need do in order to
print my completed VegasVideo projects to tape?

I've read on this (and other forums) that I should use the
Microsoft DV codec to compress my veg projects during
conversion to avi, that, while playback on my computer may
be jerky, output to tape should be fine (the VV manual
states this as well), but, I have het to get that far.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. I love the
program otherwise.

My system (if that info helps): Compaq 900 Mhz with 128 MB
RAM, SBLive sound card, and Diamond Stealth III 16MB 100
mhz video card.

Drives are all Maxtor, two 30-gig internal, 1 firewire 80
gig external. All are recent, all are rated for 7200 rpm.

Thanks again. Hope someone can get me going. Pinnacle's
SDV is reliable, but boring after using VV2.0.

Oh, by the way, not to muddy the waters, but I installed
VV2.0 build 302 (out of the box) on the Win2000 side of my
machine. Both seemed to work fine until I
downloaded/installed the update from this board (build 362
I think it is). Now, VideoCapture won't run on Win2000 at
all, I get an error message and have to end task to close
the program down.

Thanks again, sorry for the length of this post.

Caruso

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 2/19/2001, 12:39 PM
to print back to DV, you need to render using the "NTSC DV
template"- from your description, it seems like you may not
be doing this.
Caruso wrote on 2/19/2001, 8:00 PM
Sonic:
Thanks for the reply. I'll try again, just to be certain,
but, I'm thinking that my very first efforts were with the
DV codec that you suggest.

Interestingly, I can print to tape freshly captured clips
without rendering them at all.

Thanks again.

Caruso
Caruso wrote on 2/19/2001, 8:04 PM
Oops, meant to add that my original efforts at rendering
using the default setting (which I believe gave me the DV
codec) resulted in very jerky playback. Reading the manual
lead me to believe that this jerkiness was because the DV
Codec-rendered AVI is intended not for playback on a
computer screen, but for printing to tape.

Unfortunately, printing to tape resulted in a tape that was
just as jerky as the computer playback (I'm viewing the
tape on a conventional TV).

That's when (again taking clues from the manual) I started
playing around with different Codecs, the Cinepak
especially, and the "multi-media" settings suggested in the
manual (15ips).

As you might guess, clips played quite smoothly at that
setting, but quality was way down.

I'm sure I'll kick myself for not being able to figure this
out on my own, but, for now, I need some help.

Thanks in advance for any you can send my way.

Caruso
Caruso wrote on 2/20/2001, 4:30 AM
When I select the NTSC DV template, under compression type,
uncompressed is the default selection. I'm not certain if I
was supposed to do this, but I selected the NTSC DV codec
(probably because I still didn't quite understand what your
message). I also unchecked the box to make a type 2 AVI at
the bottom (sorry, I can't remember the exact wording when
I don't have the program open).

At any rate, avi's rendered from that template with those
options selected worked fine when I played them back,
previewed them on the camcorder, and when I made a couple
of short test prints to tape.

Should I have to compress at all during render? Should it
make a difference whether or not I produce a type 2 avi?

I've run out of time for this session, but will do some
more testing this evening.

Obviously, if playback through VideoCapture is jerky, then,
print to tape will be also.

I thank you once again for your replies. I'm not certain I
did exactly as you suggested, but your suggestions
definitely narrowed my focus.

Thanks again.

Caruso
SonyEPM wrote on 2/20/2001, 8:58 AM
If you are using DV, Vegas, and SF Video Capture, you'll
want to render in Vegas using the NTSC DV template, with
the OpenDML option CHECKED. This will create a DV file that
works with Video Capture and any OHCI compliant 1394 card.

If there's DV footage in the timeline that isn't altered
(straight cuts), we don't recompress; only footage that is
changed by your editing operations get recompressed
(dissolves, fx, crops etc require this).

OpenDML allows unlimited file sizes under Win 2k, and it is
supported by Windows Media Player.

For best resultes, download DX8.0a from Microsoft- it
contains a new DV codec that is exceelent (far better than
the old codec installed with DX6x.)
Caruso wrote on 2/20/2001, 7:03 PM
Thank you. I'll be certain to download direct x 8.0.

Caruso