VV4 + Pinnacle DC10+

Froggo wrote on 5/13/2003, 7:41 AM
Hi

Sorry if this type of question has been done to death already.

I have a Pinnacle DC10+ card for analogue capture

I have VV4.0b and although the capture application recognises my card, is able to preview video + audio, and even begin to capture, when I stop the capture and hit the "DONE" key the application crashes and my capture is lost.

Is there a setting to enable this to work?

Dumb question I know but I actually bought VV to use as an audio multitracker (it's brilliant at this) and just fancied having a play with some video with my existing card.

Any help much appreciated.

TIA.

Froggo

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 5/13/2003, 7:49 AM
You may have to capture with the Studio software that came with the DC10+ card and then edit in Vegas. I had a DC10+ card and while other applications recognized it, few could capture from it. No other application could print-to-tape with it. I had to use the Studio software for that.

Just think of the Studio software as a separate capture / print program and use Vegas for everything else. I now have a Studio Deluxe card and this is how I operate for analog capture and print-to-tape. Not optimal (would rather do everything in Vegas), but workable.

~jr
prairiedogpics wrote on 5/13/2003, 8:05 AM
JohnnyRoy is correct. I used to have a DC10+ card and used it with VV3. I used the DC10 software to capture AVI files (MJPEG) and edited with Vegas. However, I abandoned this when I realized I had to have the DC10 card installed to view the video files (remove the card, and MJPEG is no longer supported). I didn't like being locked into that. On top of that, the video capture isn't as good as when the footage is converted to DV AVI. Bought myself a Canopus ADVC-100 and Pyro's cheapest firewire card and now all my Hi-8 video is now converted that way. Immense improvement in quality. I would abandon the Pinnacle card and go the analog/digital conversion route.

Dan
mikkie wrote on 5/13/2003, 10:00 AM
I'm guessing here, as I've no experience with this card at all, but FWIW...

If the card has to be installed to view the motion jpeg video, then it probably uses a hardware codec like the old Matrox cards. If so, it might be possible, as with the Matrox stuff, to tell Windows (& the card) to use a software codec like picvideo. An alternative might be to convert the header of the video files to signify another, software codec in order to edit them. Something might want to play with anyway...
Maverick wrote on 5/13/2003, 10:36 AM
I used to use the DC10+ card in conjunction with Studio 7 but bought Vegas when I purchased a DV Camera. But, I stillhad the capture problem with the DC10+ so what I do now for all my analogue captures is capture throughthe DC10 to Studio then render it as an uncompressed AVI with no editing, etc. and import to Vegas4.

It's a lon-winded solution but works well.

HTH
Froggo wrote on 5/14/2003, 2:21 AM
Many thanks for the advice guys - lots of things to try.