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  Capturing live vegas 7

  Posted by Jim Heffinger on June 16, 2008 at 3:18 pm

  I’m trying to reduce the time it takes to get DVD videos ready for our school. Can I capture to Vegas live? In other words, can I connect our camera via firewire to my laptop and capture the AVI file, video and audio, in vegas?

  Thanks,
  Jim

  Terry Esslinger replied 18 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Edward Troxel

  June 17, 2008 at 12:37 pm

  Yes you can, just make sure you turn off “Device Control”.

  Edward Troxel
  
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  Terry Esslinger

  June 17, 2008 at 4:17 pm

  I have used DVRack to capture directly to an external HD attached to my laptop. This eliminates the ‘real time’ step of recapturing the footage from tape (in my case)to my editing computer. I just take the HD and remove it from the laptop and attach it to the editing computer. Just for information I use FW connections and during capture my cam is daisy chained to the HD which is attached to the laptop as I only have one FW port on the laptop. Works perfectly. I have captured 2 1/2 hour conferences strainght through without a burble. (technical term!)
  Have never tried capturing straight to Vegas (without the DVRack) and I don’t know why.

  One thing this does is save wear and tear on the camcorder. I do it without a tape zand the internal mechanics are not running. Just using the lens system. Of course a tape back up might be useful but I would have to change the tape every hour.

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