• VEGAS Pro

  nTSC DVCAM footage capturing as PAL?

  Posted by Nevin Styre on November 13, 2007 at 11:47 pm

  So I’m trying to capture some DVCam footage(13 tapes on miniDV) and not every clip has this issue but a few of the clips for whatever reason are being captured as PAL footage.
  It shows in the clip info 25fps 720×576 with 32,000Hz audio, and when played back the aspect ratio is messed up(because of the extra vertical res). Also a few of the “PAL” clips are garbled on the video side with really low pitch on the audio side(my speaker in the video sounds like he’s the devil).

  The footage was shot on a Sony DSR 900(NTSC) and originally imported from the camera over firewire with vidcap60.exe
  Second try was with a DSR 11 DVcam deck and the same issue persisted.
  I hooked it up to a second vegas machine and the first tape worked but the second gave me the same PAL issue.
  Sometimes the capture will automatically separate clips on a tape(ie. Tape 1 – clip 001, Tape 1 – clip 002) and sometimes the issue will show up on one clip, but not other clips from the same tape.

  I tried capturing in final cut pro on our mac pro and it seemed to capture it fine. However my client needs avi files and not quicktime.

  Since there are 13 full tapes I would really like to avoid solutions involving re-rendering or transferring to different tapes before capturing.

  This is a really weird problem I’ve never had before and the client is getting a little ticked off that this is taking so long, as mainly a final cut user I’m getting ticked off that this vegas capture program is so dumb.

  Mike Kujbida replied 18 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Douglas Spotted eagle

  November 14, 2007 at 2:27 am

  The reason you’re getting the PAL from NTSC isn’t because of Vegas, it’s because of corrupted file headers. It’s a problem that I’ve experienced with other NLE’s as well.
  Either way, if you’re an FCP user, why not cap’ there, convert to MXF, and give him the MXF files? If he’s using Vegas, he’ll be able to import. or give him the QT files in DV codec, I’ve not seen an NLE on the PC side that can’t import DV in a QT wrapper.

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  Mike Kujbida

  November 14, 2007 at 4:26 am

  When I’ve heard of this happening, the problem is generally because capture is started before the video signal has had a chance to fully stabilize.
  If you’re doing this in batch capture mode, delay the start time by a second or two.
  If you’re trying to capture the entire tape, let it roll, wait for a clean signal and then press ‘capture’.

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