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Capture Issue in Vegas Pro 10
Upgraded recently to Vegas Pro 10 and a couple things:
Miss the old capture interface of Vegas Pro 6 (yeah I know… ancient but more functional than 10 appears to be.)But what is puzzling me is what appears to be an intermittent capture glitch that occurs every so often in the middle of a clip. Thinking it might’ve been a tape drop out but upon replay of the original…nope… not the problem.
Here’s what’s happening: seems that (every so often) I’ll notice a “hiccup” during capture where the capture window “freezes” but I’ll still hear audio and there won’t be any error or dropped frames message as the capture keeps going. Then the picture unfreezes and plays as normal.However I’ll notice in the capture folder that instead of one clip…there are two of the same yet there seems to be a “gap” between the two of a few seconds where the “hiccup” ocurred.
I’m stumped. Any ideas or suggestions? I’m capturing HDV and I have a ASUS Sabertooth X-58 with Intel 930 2.8mhz and 12 gigs of RAM. Everything is going to a fast striped RAID0. This happens quite a bit and I’ve never had an issue on the old PC with Vegas Pro 6.
Thanks!
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You might want to use a 3rd party capture tool like HDVSplit. The Sony capture utility does have some bugs that have been there for a while now. I’ve also experienced this random splitting of clips and there really is no solution other than not to use it. 🙁
~jr
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Thanks for the response John. My immediate reaction to this is: Wow!
You’d think Sony Vegas Pro would address this important component. Having a glitch in the capture software isn’t very “pro” for what is being touted as a “professional product”. Shouldn’t have to rely on 3rd party fixes for what is supposed to be built in. Very disappointing.What other buggies are there with Sony Pro? Does anyone have a list?
Seriously…if anyone here has any pull with Sony Vegas Pro folks…they should get them to focus on a fix for this. I’m going to write them after I post this.
Thanks again.
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[Chas Smith] “You’d think Sony Vegas Pro would address this important component.”
Unless… your view is that tape is a dead format and no new cameras are using it any more so why bother fixing something that is already going away? (so it’s only an “important component” if you still own a tape based camera).
I’m not justifying it not being fix and I believe they should have fixed it years ago but what you need to understand is that the developers are not always making the decisions and “executives” get involved and hear that your working on “tape” tools and they quickly tell you not to invest any more time in a dead format. I don’t agree. If your tool supports tape it should support it correctly but I digress…
~jr
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From what I gather in your post, I believe you and I agree that there are a significant number of loyal Vegas users who still do a considerable amount of tape format work. (I am getting more involved with non-tape formats but I still do a lot of tapework). Plus certain project workflows make using tape for acquisition a no-brainer (i.e. archive projects, bullet-proof acquisition on OTO events, etc. )
I’m sure there are a lot of users like me who still have amortization / depreciation schedules to keep and our business models require us to squeeze the most we can out of the gear we’ve got. And I have yet to see HDV / MiniDV tape go the way of 3/4″ & S/VHS yet. For Vegas to ignore the capture issue shows a lack of customer awareness / respect. Remember Data Translation / Media 100? The corporate big-whigs basically abandoned the loyal video production users (like me) and shifted their product development towards streaming media…”every desktop a mini-TV station”. And their upgrade pricing path was ludicrous. For Media 100 users who wanted to stay with Mac, it was either FCP or Avid. That’s when I jumped ship to Sony Vegas “Pro” 6. And even though the loyal Media100 users voiced their concern…they were largely ignored. Fast-froward: Data Translation shot itself in the foot over that one and has barely revived.
Like I said (and I’m sure you’ll agree)… anything with a “Professional” designation should deliver everything and not arbitrarily decide on what is best for it’s users. I’m quite taken back at this technical oversight. Maybe it’s time to look closer at other alternatives.. and go back to the future.I hope someone at Sony has this on their radar.or they could become another Media 100.
Thanks for your 2 cents.
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