Vegas 8.1 (64bit) Capture JUKE, Sony Z1u, Dell Inspiron 530

[George Wingard]

UPDATE SONY SAYS

Response (Kevin K.) 12/15/2008 05:47 PM
Hi George,

Thank you for contacting Sony Creative Software. You may need to check and make sure that your camcorder has the latest 64-bit drivers installed on your machine. If you can verify that the camera drivers are 64-bit compliant, then the following knowledge base articles may be of some assistance:

Answer Title: HDV camcorder topics
Answer Link: https://www.custcenter.com/cgi-bin/sonypictures.cfg
Answer Title: Capturing from a Sony camcorder or deck

If you still have a follow-up question on this particular incident, please feel free to update it. If you have a completely different question, please create a new incident.

Sincerely,

Kevin K.
Customer Service
Sony Creative Software Inc
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com

Discussion Thread
Customer (George Wingard) 12/15/2008 07:20 PM
64 bit drivers? since you are SONY and you make both product, could you provide a Link to these? I cannot find reference to these ANYWHERE, including sony site, and pro site, Creative Cow, Internet… I assumed SONY Vegas 8.1 64bit came with 64bit HVR-Z1U capture drivers. Fresh install on fresh vista home basic 64, Vegas is the only installed program.

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[Stephen Mann]

Sony Creative Software does not make the cameras, nor the Vaio computers or Televisions or the Sony movies or music CD’s. They are all separate companies owned by the same corporate conglomerate.

I think that the customer service person was not clear in the reply. The only driver issue is with your computer and the hardware driver for your Firewire interface. There is no user-installable software or drivers for the camera.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[George Wingard]

Hmm… Maybe the card is not compatible w/ Vista :|…. Back with more

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[George Wingard]

Got the New capture card which I figured was the problem and same thing timecode runs 0 mb captured in capture window…Which really is a bummer but oh well…I am tri booting vista 32 windows xp and vista 64… I will go back to capturing in xp Just a little more convenient the other way…

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[George Wingard]

Hi for all Peeps looking for help resolving why vegas 6.1 wont capture from a hvr-z1u or a hvr-a1u on a Dell 530 here is my multi thread keyword spam…the answer may lie in the dell Intel G33 G31 chipset,………….Please see my rantish thing after the following…………
I guess I have answered my .net question on 64-bit vista home basic….net 2 and 3 are pre installed but 1.1 net is missing dont think sony Vegas needs anything 1.1 has to offer but programs such a s Quickbooks 7 do. Currently after Installing Vista Home Basic 64-bit, I am having problems capturing in xp(new issue) and still have never been able to capture in vegas 8.1 on 64bit vista…I installed both operating systems on separate drives but have a feeling something is causing problems from the vista install..I am going to try a system restore back to when I know it was working (after I uninstall Premire pro, oops too late it already wants me to re register, crapo its the new 1394 card; oh well at least its not photoshop cs2)
UPDATE SONY SAYS

Response (Kevin K.) 12/15/2008 05:47 PM
Hi George,

Thank you for contacting Sony Creative Software. You may need to check and make sure that your camcorder has the latest 64-bit drivers installed on your machine. If you can verify that the camera drivers are 64-bit compliant, then the following knowledge base articles may be of some assistance:

Answer Title: HDV camcorder topics
Answer Link: https://www.custcenter.com/cgi-bin/sonypictures.cfg
Answer Title: Capturing from a Sony camcorder or deck

If you still have a follow-up question on this particular incident, please feel free to update it. If you have a completely different question, please create a new incident.

Sincerely,

Kevin K.
Customer Service
Sony Creative Software Inc
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com

Discussion Thread
Customer (George Wingard) 12/15/2008 07:20 PM
64 bit drivers? since you are SONY and you make both product, could you provide a Link to these? I cannot find reference to these ANYWHERE, including sony site, and pro site, Creative Cow, Internet… I assumed SONY Vegas 8.1 64bit came with 64bit HVR-Z1U capture drivers. Fresh install on fresh vista home basic 64, Vegas is the only installed program.

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Re: Sony HVR-Z1U 64 bit Drivers?
by Stephen Mann on Dec 15, 2008 at 11:48:50 pm

Sony Creative Software does not make the cameras, nor the Vaio computers or Televisions or the Sony movies or music CD’s. They are all separate companies owned by the same corporate conglomerate.

I think that the customer service person was not clear in the reply. The only driver issue is with your computer and the hardware driver for your Firewire interface. There is no user-installable software or drivers for the camera.
Hmm… Maybe the card is not compatible w/ Vista :|…. Back with more
Got the New capture card which I figured was the problem and same thing timecode runs 0 mb captured in capture window…Which really is a bummer but oh well…I am tri booting vista 32 windows xp and vista 64… I will go back to capturing in xp Just a little more convenient the other way……………………

To make a long story short those were some of my ramblings with VISTA 64 bit the G33 /G#! chipset and vegas 8.1, The Dell 530 6600 quad core is a very cheap computer…I guess it is not fit to run Vegas 8.1 capture(in my opinion) at the moment…I have personally tried two different TI cards one generic TI the second one ads tech pyro pci 64r2 approved for vista 64…No Luck I think this is a Microsoft Issue or Vegas issue as I was dual booting vista home Prem and xp just fine untill I installed Vista64 and then Vegas64 (8.1) Something in that install, even though it was on a seperate drive did something to the capture ability of the whole computer(xp, vista 32, vista 64) I completely reformatted using xp to quick format the drives and reinstalled vegas64 home basic over a new install of xp(it was the cheapest option…Upgrade) Dunno if any of y’all have a 530 with vegas succesfully running/ capturing with a z1u but would like to hear from you if you do thx. George

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[George Wingard]

I feel so Dumb…I Shot this Event with my gr-hd1 as well as my hvr-z1u…The tape plays fine in the sony but does not capture in any program…Oh well I had fun screwing with reinstalling and dual booting windows vista and XP, the whole time I thought it was some driver issue with 64bit…the secret to dual booting is vistabootpro…be sure to install xp first and copy ntldr, ntdetect, and > boot. ini to the same root drives of both Vista & XP. sorry intel, sony, dell and ads pyro…My bad…

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[Pat Barber]

I have the same problem and don’t understand your solution. Where to you find ntldr, ntdetect, and > boot. ini I can’t figure out where to even start, other than plugging in the camera and hooking it up to my computer

[George Wingard]

Was the tape in your camera, shot with that camera? if not try a different tape and shoot some footage with it and try again, my problem was that I shot the footage with my gr-hd1 at a wedding and figured since it was in the hdv format that it was crossplatform (could be played in any camera)anyway I put in a tape I shot with my z1u and all was good

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