Video Capture Device problem...

Onwuma wrote on 2/27/2005, 10:45 AM
I am using a Sony Digital Handycam DCR-TVR340 NTSC with Vegas 5.0 and a GeForce 6600 GT as my capture card but Vegas will not recognize the device and i cannot capture video through USB or S-Video. I read that Vegas does not support all cards at this time, but i doubt any update will fix that (seeing as Vegas 4 never recieved an update). Is there any way i can make this work without expensive equipment?

NOTE: I did download and install the NVIDIA 2.2 WMD drivers to no effect.

Comments

Liam_Vegas wrote on 2/27/2005, 10:49 AM
Vegas supports capture (with the least amount of problems) via a firewire attached camera/capture device.

Do you have a firewire port on your computer?

If not.... they are VERY cheap these days.
Former user wrote on 2/27/2005, 11:35 AM
If your camera has a firewire connection, you can find firewire cards for $20 US or less. It will give a much better capture than S video or USB.

Dave T2
Spot|DSE wrote on 2/27/2005, 11:52 AM
Be careful of the 20.00 cards....often they have VIA or NEC chipsets, or worse...Quantegy chips.
You definitely want a card with TI chips on it for the most compatibility. Even Walmart carries the ADS cards these days, 30.00 on average.
Beto_PR wrote on 3/4/2005, 10:25 PM
Ok i have this same problem but i dont want to capture from a camera instead i want to capture a very old Wed Video in VHS via SVideo-IN from 1990 for a client, but the problem is that Vega did captured 2 or 3 times before, and now it dont want to i tried different drivers but nothing, Windows Movie Maker can capture but the quality is so bad in that Toy software, and also Virualdub can capture too but the size is amazingly big so i want to use Vega for this job, the error is that every time i select the nvidia capture universal, Vega always says that another program is using the driver but there is no program opened, it happens even after a restart. How can i see if the driver is in use in the Task Mannager if it possble that is. TIA for any help.
kb_de wrote on 3/5/2005, 1:59 AM
ok, i think everybody talks the theme crossed, my meaning as following:

1- vegas does support analog capdevice very bad, you can use it, but the avi file uncompressed, mostly you can also only get 352x288 size, evenso, too large.
2- virtDub and Co. do it excellent, but you'd choose a good codec, adjusting is required.
3- other universal cap programs such as PowerVCR-II treat this kind device very gently, you get the result as mpeg2, much more better than the original quali.
4- a video/AGP card with capture function, as I see, is only suitable, when it has the cap part separatly such as ATI All in Wonder. others lead to the "report": in use, because vegas selfly also uses the card intensively.