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capture problem
I have vegas 7 installed on a Dell 2.4 gig machine with Invidia card and plenty of memory. U-Lead video program captures video perfectly. Vegas drops at least half of the available frames. The vegas capture is totaly unusable. If I capture in U-lead and then edit in Vegas it works fine. Any suggestions on how to get V-7 to capture properly?
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Can you post the workflow that you are using while captureing in Vegas. Also are your captureing via firewire?
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Ric, yes, I’m using firewire and as a long time professional user of Vegas (we have 4 systems) there is nothing unusual about the work flow. It definately seems to be an issue with Vegas 7 capture. I have unistalled and reinstalled 3 time to no avail.I’m stumped!
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Kevin,
Are you having the same issue on all of your Vegas 7 systems?
As I’m sure you know there are many things that can cause dropped frames during capture. Since you are not dropping frames capturing with U-Lead I think it’s safe to say your hard drive is not the problem. Here is a few things to try.
1) Go to control panel/system/hardware and look for the 1394 Bus Host Controllers and double click on it. Delete any drivers that are not microsoft drivers, such as TI, Lucent, or VIA drivers.
2) Some 1394 cards are installed as Network Cards. This can cause conflicts. Double click on Network Adapters and disable the 1394 NIC/Network Card (this is not needed for any networking stuff).
Now for some obvious suggestions.
1) Reduce the size of your capture window.
2) Disable any background applications such as AntiVirus
and Internet Connection.Hope this helps you.
If not let us know and we will go from there.Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
I also use the program EndItAll to stop any unnecessary programs from running in the background. It will usuallly end up closing 10-12 programs that I did not even know were running on my editing computer. No web connection or word processing etc programs installed.
Never have a problem with capture. Dell 2.4, duocore with 2G and NVidia 2 head card.
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Another way is to use MS MovieMaker (ugh!) as the capture software. Make sure you choose the AVI format. This only works with a Firewire 1384 connection.
Save as DV NTSC AVI.Ugly, but it works.
ken wood
camarillo, ca
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Thanks for all the suggestions. Ric, I did find that 1394 NIC/Network card was enabled. I disabled it and the problem was still there. I was caputuring to my internal “f” drive, and this is the drive that will capture perfectly with U-Lead. I decided to switch my capture location to an external Lacie 500Gb firewire 800 drive and BINGO…ZERO dropped frames using Vegas! Thanks for your help.
Ric, I owe you a voice over. drop me a line with a script.
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