Can you capture video and audio to different drives?

[Graham Bernard]

Good question! I never do this, so if you want to read on, up to you . . And not wanting to be beaten, I just did some quizzing . .

Well, as you know, you can choose to capture to different drives, both A+V streams. You can also elect to NOT capture the Audio. I can’t at present see a way to NOT capture the Video? In any event it WOULD mean you would have to capture twice – once for the NON-Audio and again for the combined.

I can’t see an obvious SINGLE capture session that will divide the stream – let alone designate 2 drives.

If this is something the industry uses a lot, maybe put a request into Sony?

I have recently bought Scenalyzer. I don’t know if even that does what you are asking.

At the end of the day, if you’ve “come-over” from Prem to do your editing in Vegas – Hi! – just use Prem to do the Capture splitting you wish, then use it for that.

Sorry, aint got good news. Well anyways, I don’t have a solution other than 2 captures PLUS opening up the material and then rendering back out the WAV part? Eh .. messy.

[Tip Mcpartland]

Thanks for your note — much appreciated. I can capture in Premiere to the two arrays, but I wonder if Vegas will find the video and sound in two separate places. I did drag files captured in Premeiere/Cineform to the Vegas timeline and they work fine, even without the Vegas Cineform plug-in. Well, it won’t be the end of the world to capture everything to my big SATA 2 RAID, it will have the drive space for the native 35 Mb/sec XDCAM HD files I hope to be working with as opposed to the 100 Mb/sec Cineform intermediates that I have been editing. Thanks again.

Tip

[Graham Bernard]

No worries!

I’m trying to reconcile these 2 statements of yours:

“ . . but I wonder if Vegas will find the video and sound in two separate places.”

. .and . .

“I did drag files captured in Premeiere/Cineform to the Vegas timeline and they work fine, ”

So? Which is it? I’m guessing here, but are you implying that Vegas WONT find them automatically? However dragging the files WORKS?

In any event Vegas WILL treat the Audio and Video as 2 separate EVENT entities. You will need to create a New Group. Is this what you mean as Vegas “finding” them? Hmmm… Once “grouped” for THAT project they are grouped. If you SHOULD then re-use them within ANOTHER project and re-import them, they WONT have this project-specific grouping. Meaning they will need to be re-grouped as a pair. I don’t even think making them a Sub-Clip would help either .. hold on .. AH! You may wish to make a separate COMBINED Veg of JUST that material. You could then bring THIS veg into any further project as a NESTED veg – something that Vegas IS good at! You can then treat this nested veg AS combined media. Yeah! That should do it!

Anyways, how is the sync going? Any issues?

[Tip Mcpartland]

Man, you seem to know a lot about Vegas! So far no problem with sync, but need to experiment more. The problem I have with capturing in Premiere is that I’m not sure how well it will handle ingesting 35 Mb/sec XDCAM HD. I know there is MainConcept plug-in for this, but I’ve heard that it’s not working terribly well yet, so capturing in Vegas may be a fact of life, with or without a separate sound drive.

Thanks again for another great post.

Tip

[Chris Young]

Tip ~

We came from editing on Discreet’s edit*, still have it, and were used to separate AV and audio SCSI drives so know where you are coming from. Having used Vegas now for five years all I can say is don’t worry. If you have a fast raid system Vegas handles audio and video together without a problem. In fact I can’t even recall one problem in those years relating to audio and video being together on the same drives.

Chris Young
Sydney