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  • HDV Capture issues

    Posted by Tim Neighbors on April 1, 2010 at 7:53 pm

    I’ve been having random issues capturing HDV via firewire with my sony Z7U into Sony Vegas 9. sometimes the audio drops out, sometimes the video freezes and the audio continues, sometimes the video starts going in slow mo while the audio continues normally, thus falling out of sync with the video. The footage was recently shot on new tape in HDV Progressive 30fps. I borrowed a friends Z7U to try to capture the footage shot with my camera and it does the same thing. I also shot some footage with my friends camera and tried capturing that footage with my camera and it does the same thing.

    I’m now starting to suspect a TC issue…cause when I recapture the footage and splice it together to cover errors in the original capture, then use a script to display the TC in the clip, the TC does not match.

    Both cameras were set to “Auto” mode in the [TC] NDF or DF menu. Gonna try recording footage in DF setting then capturing and same with NDF. But I’m wondering if anyone has some knowledge about this already or experience with this sort of issue.

    Is there a NDF or DF setting for HDV in Vegas Video 9? I don’t see one.

    Using Win XP Pro 32bit on a Core2 Quad 2.4GHz with 4 GB Ram. 7200rpm HDD.

    Tim Neighbors replied 14 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Jeremy Rasnic

    April 1, 2010 at 11:05 pm

    3 things:

    1. Did you try capturing to your buddies computer that has the same cam? If not- try it just to rule out the camera. (as you know, the trial is free)

    2. What do you have running in the background? Disable any antivirus as well during capture. Go to Start/Run/msconfig and go to the startup tab. Uncheck everything that does not need to run at startup. If you are not sure you can uncheck it and the system will recheck everything it needs to run for you upon restart.

    3. Try HDV Split. It is a free program.

    j razz

    https://www.jrazzcreations.com

  • Bill Little

    April 12, 2010 at 3:44 pm

    My issue with audio dropping out and frame loss was due to media. I used panasonic PQ 63 minute tapes and 3 out of 3 with zero dropped frames.

    Previously I used Sony Premium 60 minute and would get 2-10 dropped frames. Sometimes i would recapture the same tape and it would pass a section that previously dropped out with out incident, then drop in a new section. Other times, like clock work, it would drop out at the exact same locations. Making it difficult to trace down and very frustrating!

    May be you will have better results with Panasonic PQ.

  • Ben Edwards

    April 19, 2010 at 4:54 pm

    The problem is that Vegas is (let me think of the proper technical word) rubbish at HDV capture, and thats being nice. HDVSplit does a much better job and normally works, however I find it disturbing we are having to rely on 3rd party beta software to capture a format that is one Sony cameras uses quite a lot. I am indeed thinking of switching to FCP, I love Vegas but it has quite a few things that bug me. FCP may not be so good in some areas but I used it for a couple of years and it did not have anything that bugged me.

    End of rant;).

    Ben

  • Tim Neighbors

    August 31, 2010 at 1:48 am

    I updated to Vegas 9e and my issues went away. I guess there were some bugs with 9a that needed to be worked out. So far so good with HDV captures.

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