Video Capture problem

Hammer wrote on 12/27/2003, 5:02 PM
I'm having a capture problem with Vegas 3.0. I think it must have something to do with some other software I recently installed but uninstalling that software has not cleared up my problem. Anyway, I go in the video capture application and click on Capture Tape, as I normally would. It rewinds to the beginning as usual, then starts to capture and immediately stops. It show the device control pause button pressed. Clicking on capture video just immediately stops as well. I can do all the the normal controls, stop, play, ff,rewind, but trying to capture always results in stopping without capturing a single frame. I can capture video using the built in Movie Maker utility that comes with Windows XP. Any ideas?

P4 2.4 512meg/dual 80 gig hds/Win XP that worked just fine until today.

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swarrine wrote on 12/27/2003, 9:28 PM
Do you have enough available hard drive space and have you defragged recently?
Spot|DSE wrote on 12/28/2003, 11:49 AM
Be sure minimum clip length is turned off, with no maximum clip length defined. That might clear the problem. You might also need to do a rollback.
What was the new software application installed? Not Roxio by chance?
AlohaMike wrote on 12/28/2003, 1:21 PM
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Hammer wrote on 12/28/2003, 1:30 PM
I have plenty of hard drive space, dual 80gig drives with one just for movie work. I turned off min clip length too. Same problem. The recently installed software is/was Music Creator and Sonar 3 demo both by Cakewalk. I removed both figuring they must have something to do with the problem. It's odd to me that it is communicating just fine with the camera. If I use the vid cap controls to play/rewind/ff/stop it does all of that. The second I hit video capture, it pauses the cameral without capturing.
DGrob wrote on 12/28/2003, 3:00 PM
Are you sure you've got vidcap correctly identified? With 2 drives you might check Preferences-disk management tab. Vegas Capture normally defaults to an OS disk within the Vegas folder. If your vidcap is on "C" and disk management is identifiying "E" ????? DGrob