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JOHNSONG wrote on 11/17/2005, 11:55 PM
Another message " The device 'ATI Rage Theatre Capture' could not be opened.

Please make sure that it is turned on and is not used by another application or user.

farss wrote on 11/18/2005, 1:55 AM
Do you have a VCR connected to a firewire port?
Bob.
JOHNSONG wrote on 11/18/2005, 11:06 AM
No, VSR connected through the video card.

I did get video and no sound.

Problem was I started clicking items to see if I could get the sound working.


Now it complains the preview is turned off
farss wrote on 11/18/2005, 1:48 PM
Not the best way to capture with Vegas, I've never tried to work this way, some have sort of had it work. From what I can deduce your video comes in via the video card and the audio via your sound card, you need to point VidCap to both the video and audio device and iy might work.
The problem that you'll most likely strike is that the audio and video streams are not locked so over time they'll drift, you'll get the audio and video go out of sync. You can correct this in Vegas if need be however in general working this way is kind of lame, both your audio and video quality is possibly being compromised compared to capturing via a decent A->D converter and firewire.
Bob.
JOHNSONG wrote on 11/24/2005, 12:34 AM
The Ati card is no longer listed

I have removed v6.0c and reinstalled

It still says Preview is turned off

There must be a way to make it work again


JOHNSONG wrote on 11/29/2005, 10:31 PM
I take it V6.0c is really not really designed for old fashion analog capture

That is capturing video from a VCR.
Grazie wrote on 11/30/2005, 1:15 AM
Oh, well when I capture into VHS from my VCR into Vegas6c, I go into the Vegas Video capture Utility

1/- Options

2/- Preferences

3/- General Tab >> UN-check "Enable DV device control"

4/- Capture Tab >> UN-check "Enable DV scene detection"

5/- "Apply"

6/- OK

Now I'm good to go for capturing in Vegas6c AND I can preview too.

. .and that's how I do VHS into Vegas6c.

Your reply: "I take it V6.0c is really not really designed for old fashion analog capture

That is capturing video from a VCR."

. . is in 2 parts and really needs 2 replies:

1: Vegas works with DV and needs a flow of DV to capture. I use my Panasonic Deck as a converting element - it works!

2: As I explained above, Vegas can and does capture video from my VCR (VHS) - not controllable, but it does a fine fine job of it. I guess you ARE meaning a VHS VCR? I've got a DV:Deck AND a VHS VCR.

I hope this has helped,

Grazie

farss wrote on 11/30/2005, 2:40 AM
If you're trying to capture from VHS I'd stringly urge you to invest in anyone of a number of devices, to numerous to list here but in general you gets waht you pays for, purpose built units such as the ADVC 300 work very well or else a Digital 8 camera will also do an excellent job, depends mostly on what condition the video on the tapes is in, if it's in pristine condition then anything capable of analogue to digital conversion will work just fine. If you've got old, damaged tape then it needs all the help it can get and once you start encoding it for DVDs things can go downhill rather quickly.
Bob.