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Trouble capturing digital video
Hi all,
HELP!! I cannot capture video off the machine that I have been capturing off of for months. I got into a large project for the last month and was capturing stills and composite video. My Sony DSR 25 is the unit I have always used before this but now Vegas says it cannot be opened??
I have had it looped through a Canopus ADVC 100 as a pass through so I could view the preview video on an older monitor. I had to disconnect the DSR 25 in order for the composite video from old VHS tapes to work through the Canopus.
Now that I am back trying to capture video through the DSR 25 (digital), Vegas keeps telling me that the device is not connected. I did get it to see the unit, but then it tells me it cannot be opened. I turn it off, restart the computer, select reconnect to current device, but it hangs and then says the device cannot be opened and to make sure it is not being used by another application.
Any suggestions?? I am very new to the Vegas system and frustration is mounting as I now need to catch up on a large number of DVCAM weddings.
I even went directly from the DSR-25 to the computer and it is still not seeing it. It was working great before this.
Thanks for any help.
Dan.
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3 Replies
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You need to re-enable the feature in VidCap that you’ve disabled in order to capture analog footage.
Going from memory here as I’m not at my Vegas computer, it’s in Options – Preferences – General and is the very first one (enable DV scene detection).
That may not be the exact wording but it should be pretty close. -
Dan
Simply try playing the device when in the capture screen. If a preview appears, you should be able to start capturing, but that means Vegas cannot control the device, and as such, you will need to manually stop it and stop the recording in Vegas as well.
My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6
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Hi,
Just spent around two hours on the phone with Sony support regarding my capture problem. It seems that there is a conflict between my DVCAM DSR-25 and the Canopus ADVC-100. Everything was fine until I changed from DV in to composite in on the Canopus. I physically removed the firewire connection from the DVCAM to the Canopus so Vegas would see the composite VCR footage. That seems to be where the problem lies. Now Vegas is seeing the Canopus as the input device. When I connect the DVCAM to the Canopus, Vegas loses the connection and says that there is no device connected. Sony seems to think that the two firewire connections (one from the DVCAM to the Canopus, and one from the Canopus to the computer) are somehow causing this conflict. But my answer to that is that it was working fine before I inputted the composite footage.
I am totally lost as to what to do now. I disconnected the Canopus and went directly from the DVCAM DSR-25 to the computer and it still does NOT see the footage. Vegas says there is no device connected.
Sony seems to think that there is a setting on the DSR-25 that sends the firewire signal out, but I do not see any and it was sending the signal through the Canopus before this all happened.
Anybody familiar with the Canopus ADVC 100 or the DVCAM DSR-25 have any suggestions?? At this point I am dead in the water and cannot input any DVCAM footage into my system.
Should I reconnect the composite machine to the Canopus and see if I can switch the signal back to DV??? I’m not even sure that makes sense.
Any help is appreciated.
Dan.
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