VHS-C capture trouble.

RWatts wrote on 7/18/2007, 8:03 AM

I captured a vhs-c tape quite nicely on minidv tape (Canon Zr30) and it plays quite nicely on the camera, but when I capture it in VMS 6, i get a strange distorted effect, mosaiced and audio slowed way down. My brain (!?) tells me I am capturing incorrectly, but I cannot see what I am doing wrong. I get the same effect wheteher I select video, audio or "none" as master in capture. Any ideas?
By the way, I am regularly capturing recorded dv, or vhs to dv, quite nicely.
Thanks,
RW

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Tim L wrote on 7/18/2007, 9:19 AM

Check the properties of the clip in you project media window, and confirm that it says NTSC format. If it says PAL, that's your problem. You'll get a very freaky, mosaiced video. Don't know what it does to audio.

I've had occasional problems with VMS 6 if I started a capture in between clips -- i.e. with video noise on the screen. I figured it would just begin capturing at the first valid frame. Looked perfect during capture -- said NTSC -- but when capture was completed and file saved, it saved it as PAL.

I think this was fixed in the full Vegas in one of the Vegas 7.0 update releases. Workaround is to just make sure you capture starting on a real frame from the DV. If capturing from a recorded miniDV tape (not passthrough), just use the controls to manually step to the first frame, then click the capture button.

Tim L

RWatts wrote on 7/18/2007, 10:37 AM

Thanks, Tim, I can't try that till later, but it sounds like the solution. I'll report.
Reg

RWatts wrote on 7/19/2007, 4:57 AM

Tim:
It worked like a dream! It was the first few frames - very distorted. I just started on a good frame and -voila!
Thanks so much, I was getting very frustrated. It's amazing how valuable this forum is.
Reg