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Vegas Won’t Recognize my Canon HV20…..Sorta
When I tell Vegas to Capture HD video from my Canon HV20, everything works great. But, when I tell it to capture DV video from the same camera I get an error message stating:
The device ‘Canon HV20″ could not be opened.
Please make sure that it is turned on and not being used by another application or user.I’m hooked up via a firewire. Same set up as when I capture HD video. The system obviously recognizes the camera and even tells me it knows the type of camera I’m using. Must be an issue with the DV video capture application but I can’t figure it out.
Any thoughts?
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2 Replies
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Steve,
I use the HV20 also for both HDV and DV capture. Try setting your HV20 playback to DV locked. Then set Vegas capture to DV.
The HV20 setting is found in the playback menu labeled DV OUTPUT. Be sure to make this menu change before connecting your Firewire connection. Good LuckAugust
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Hi, is the out on the HV20 set to DV, HDV or both? Also, Vegas likes to set up a default vidcap on your computer. If you have been using HDV then change the video standard on the HV20, from HDV to DV, and then try to capture, it can confuse that default (HDV) vidcap.
Say I have filmed something in HDV, and captured it. Vegas will set a default vidcap for HDV out of the HV20. So from then on capturing HDV from the HV20 will be a breeze. If I change the standard on the HV20 to DV, at capture things go haywire.
That’s what I have observed. So I film everything in HDV with a Vegas’ default vidcap behaving nicely.
Try the prefs in capture, upper left hand dialogue box, you’ll see it. Tool around there.
Resetting can be tedious. I found that I had to be pedantic and couldn’t EASILY find a trick to override Vegas. I had to turn everything on and off a million times and then finally it would work. So with a working defualt vidcap I don’t touch the HV20 video standard (HDV)!!!
Keeps me sane.
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