Vegas Recording

[Graham Bernard]

VHS tapes are Analogue. You need to be able to convert that stream into Digital. Once in that format then VEgas will take them in.

OK, Vegas comes with Video Capture s/w : VidCap.exe . I’ve used this for the past 10 years, maybe? Now you might have other analogue convert>capture s/w, but Vegas has its own. All you need to have now is a method of streaming the Analogue thru a converted into VidCap.

So: VHS stream >>> AVtoDV converter >>> VidCap (or other) >>> Auto imported into Vegas.

Does that help?

Grazie

Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

[Bob Peterson]

I have an old Sony video camera that accepts analog as an input, converts it to digital, and immediately sends it out thru a firewire port to the computer. Vegas can capture the video coming from the camera as long as you disable the option to let Vegas control the playback device. In my Sony camera that is an option called Pass Through.

There are also more expensive devices that do this conversion, but my camera does just fine for me purposes.

[Richard Milner]

Ok y’all are missing what I am saying. I want to take my vcr out to my computer and record it. Can Vegas do that? I have a program from AVS4You that is a video recorder and Wirecast that I ended up using to make my video’s. Thinking that Vegas would take an input video signal and record it.

[John Rofrano]

[Richard Milner] “Ok y’all are missing what I am saying.”

No… you are missing what they are saying.

[Richard Milner] “I want to take my vcr out to my computer and record it. Can Vegas do that?”

No you cannot do that.

Your VHS is ANALOG and your computer is DIGITAL. This is what the other posters are trying to tell you. You need a device that performs Analog-to-Digital conversion like a Canopus ADVC-100 which also requires that your computer has a Firewire port. You can also use an old digital video camera that has passthru but you can’t do it with your computer alone. There are cheaper USB converters but most of the loose audio sync and have low quality video making them practically useless. A firewire device is the best way to capture analog video.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Richard Milner]

I have a K World USB capture device. But if Vegas can’t receive it that way, then I have to capture it in my Video Recorder by AVS4You or Wirecast and then convert it to avi then import it into Vegas which sucks, but I guess I have to do what I have to do.

Grace and Peace to you!
Richard

[Graham Bernard]

[Richard Milner] “Thinking that Vegas would take an input video signal and record it.”

What type of Video signal? Analogue (here read your VHS tapes) or Digital? And that’s your error, not Vegas. You appear to think that ALL Video signals are created equal, they ain’t. Understand that, and you will have leapt forward in your understanding and opportunities to move on.

Here’s a not very good example of my own:

Analogue : Somebody blowing into an oboe.

Digital : Somebody making an oboe-like sound on a digital synth.

VHS tapes relies upon the recording onto magnetic tape variations of voltages to mirror the sounds and frequencies of an anlogue instrument or the output from an Analogue camera. This is not Digital. To do that the Analogue voltages/frequencies need to be re-sampleed into the digital domain as ( drum rolll here) Binary Ones and Noughts or 1 and 0. They, these voltages/frquencies, are “sampled”, the higher the rate of sampling the “clearer” the Audio or the Visual Picture becomes. There is so much more to this than what I’ve said, but this is my general understanding on the subject.

I hope this has shed some light onto this aspect of this oft confusing craft . . it is a craft! – And that’s analogue speak . . . .

Cheers

Grazie

Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

[John Rofrano]

[Richard Milner] “I have a K World USB capture device.”

Then you should use the KWorld software to capture since it’s designed to work with that device. Then drop that file into Vegas Pro.

[Richard Milner] “then I have to capture it in my Video Recorder by AVS4You or Wirecast and then convert it to avi then import it into Vegas which sucks, but I guess I have to do what I have to do.”

There is no need to convert it to AVI. The KWorld device records MPEG2 which is compatible with Vegas Pro. Converting it will just degrade the video more.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com