HDV in the trail version of the software.

[Edward Troxel]

Since HDV is MPEG2 and MPEG2 is typically disabled in the trial versions, my guess is going to be NO – however, I can’t answer for sure. If you have a previous version of Vegas installed, the answer could very well be yes.

Edward Troxel

[Ajay Sharma]

It does not !!
I have been using premiere pro 1.5 for years and recently bought Vegas 6
I bought Sony’s HC1 HDV camera and tried Vegas 6 trial did not capture Mpeg2( HDV ). full version does, and believe it or not It does a lot better Job than even premiere pro.
renders lot faster
the output is lot better.etc etc .
Although even with the full version it’s little tricky to set up your HDV camera to be recognised by the software in order to capture.
if you need help with that drop me an e-mail.

[Jerry Waters]

Do yourself a big favor and download a trial version of “Connect HD” as http://www.cineform.com — the capture is easier, it scene detects and will create editable files for Vegas that respond like they are DV – no use of proxies. If your machine is slow, you may have to first capture to m2t then convert to the avi files. If fast, the capture/convert can be done in one step. The scene detect will occur in the conversion either way. Vegas doesn’t scene detect.

JerryW