“sony video capture has stopped workging” msg ????

[Lawrence Farr]

Well, kinda. It was in Vegas 32 that it first happened so I tried the 64-bit version, still no luck, re-installed Vegas, no luck, tried to capture using Windows Movie Maker, no luck.

Finally I did the repair thing and it was fixed. But DV capture in my case was broken for the entire OS, not just Vegas. Vegas is the only thing I ever use for capture so trying with Movie Maker was just a logical part of the troubleshooting process and it kinda led me to the solution.

I recalled that DV capture in Windows has always been part of the OS. I don’t recall ever installing any special drivers to make it happen in XP, Vista or anything so I figured that repairing the MS multi-media software, contained within Live Essentials in this case, would do it.

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks for the explanation.

My situation was similar, except that the capture of Movie Maker was working. Like you, I tried WMMaker just as a troubleshooting method. The fact that it was working led me to uninstalling/reinstalling Vegas.

I’d taken the time to send an email to SONY using their support form, serial number and all… I’m still waiting for a response… I don’t think I’ll ever get one which I find very disheartening.

I’ll keep your solution in my back-pocket, should this rear its ugly head again.

Thanks again for taking the time.

Gilles