can’t capture into Sony Vegas MS10- “preview not available”

[Scott Francis]

Two thoughts, are you capturing DV or HDV?
One, if HDV can Movie Studio do HDV? and if so are you trying to capture in the HDV format or DV?
If it cannot capture HDV, than make sure you have the camera downconverting any HDV footage to DV and capture in DV…hope this makes sense!

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Nicole Ford]

Thanks for the response,Scott.
I taped in HDV and Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD 10 captures HD so there shouldn’t be a problem there. The box for Studio says,”easy import from HDV, AVCHD and DVD camcorders”! HMMM…

These are things I’ve tried in the past 24 hours–
Last night I found on a Windows 7 forum that someone had a similar issue and changed drivers from OHCI 1394 Compliant host driver to OHCI 1394 (Legacy) driver. I did that. Nothing different. (There is also another driver LSI 1394 Compliant Host Controller.)

I tried to playback or capture in DV mode but no capture—still says “preview not available”. I’ve tried a few tricks like start the tape on play. Stop it and then try to capture. No capture there.The capture does recognize the camera as hv20.

To try to set the camera to downconvert(?) the HDV to DV I went to PLAY and on the menu selected “PLAY/OUT SETUP 1″ set the TV type to normal 4:3. Under Camera I set the PLAY/OUT SETUP” to
“COMP OUT” to 480i. I couldn’t capture with this setting either.

I don’t know if there is something I should select in the capture-options-preferences area that would help. I have tried “enable dv device control” checked and unchecked.
Something I just noticed is at the top of the capture window it says
“Sony Video Capture 6.0-Default*.

Any additional comments or help would be appreciated! I need it!
Nicole

[Mike Kujbida]

Just as a point of clarification, I think you meant to say Canon HV20, not Sony.

When you click the Capture Video icon in Vegas, do you get a window that looks like this?

Just to confirm, the legacy driver steps you went through were as follows?
1. Right-click on the firewire host controller entry in the device manager and choose Update Driver Software.
2. Browse your computer for driver software.
3. Choose Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.
4. Select 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy) and then Next.

Have you tried a different firewire cable?
Have you tried it on another computer?

Give HDVSplit (it’s free) a try and see if it works.

[Nicole Ford]

Thanks, Mike.
Yes, you are right –it is a canonhv20 camera.

When I select capture video, the program does not go to a “video capture format” screen as shown above, but it goes straight to the capture screen with a large blue preview window with a tool bar at the top much like the vegas one.

Yes, I downloaded the legacy driver as you instructed above. But will give it another go, just in case it works today.

No, I have not tried a new firewire; this one is less than a year old and it does work when I capture using HDVsplit. I have used HDVsplit for capturing thus far. (Do you recommend getting a firewire, even if it works to capture with one program?)

No, I can’t capture into Vegas on another computer because this is the only one I have than has firewire capability. (The computer’s only a year old).

Even though I can capture using HDVsplit, I will be using HD camerawork for a video based business and want to use all parts of the program. Hope you guys can still help! You are awesome for troubleshooting with me. Thanks.

[Mike Kujbida]

Nicole, the capture window that opens up is the Vegas one meant for HDV files so that’s OK.
Since it works using HDVSplit, your firewire cable is OK.
I vaguely recall reading on various Vegas forums that your model (and the HV30 & 40) have given Vegas some grief over the years, especially with respect to capturing.
As long as HDVSplit works, there’s no reason not to use it.
A lot of posters on other Vegas forums use it exclusively as they don’t like the Sony HDV capture utility.
Don’t think that just because you’re not using the Vegas capture utility that the rest of it won’t work properly.
Once the video is captured into the computer (even with HDVSplit), you’ll be able to use all of Vegas so stop worrying and start enjoying it.