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Sony A1U Firewire Capture Not connecting at all
I have Vegas 8 running on a PC. When I connect my camera via firewire nothing at all happens. Tring to capture HDV tapes. When i connect the USB cable It pops up right away wanting to load still pics from the card.
Tried re-booting
Changing firewire cables
Used known good cables
Re-starting computer , then turning on camera
Switching firewire portsrunning XP Pro with service pak 2, but am not connected to the internet, never connect my edit systems for internet use.
any Ideas?
thanks,
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I hope you are not trying to use the video capture utility to
capture from an HD camera (its only made to capture SD).
You have to use the internal capture feature in vegas.And also make sure you go in “preferences” and select
ieee firewire connection.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Portfolio at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys -
I tried selecting firewire, also toggling external and internal, always get device not connected
Greg
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I Should correct myself….when the internal
capture window pops up, you right click in
it and select device and ieee 1394/mpeg2-ts….
and see if that helps.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Portfolio at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys -
and make sure the camera is set in hd mode before you connect it
to the computer.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Portfolio at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys -
I tried that, but will give it another try now
Greg
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Ok
When I select capture video a window pops up giving me a choice of either dv or hdv.sdi I select Hdv/sdi capture window opens with device not connected, the preferences window does not have a mpeg 2 firewire listing just windows, a nd firewire also external box.
I tried all combinations with no result at all.Again this is a sony A1u camera with a firewire port listing HDV and DV
The camera is in hdvGreg
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What camera are you using?
Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Portfolio at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys -
No, No….Something is wrong there, you should see
three options available in the internal docking capture
utility preferences:
1.None.
2.AJA video device.
3.IEEE 1394/MPEG2-TS device.It will not function if its not selected here.
Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Portfolio at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys -
says
1 AJA Video Device
2 OHCI Compliant Ieee 1394/DV
3 windows secondary Displaythat’s all?
Greg
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Also a guy with final cut pro on mac says he can log the tapes for me onto my hard drive but it will be as a quicktime .mov,, can I then takd the hard drive back to my vegas PC system plug it in and load into the timeline edit and out put to a DVD?
This In case I can’t get my camera to work tonight…
Greg
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