Video Card and Capturing Video

[John Rofrano]

[Dave Petteruto] “Does the video card come into use during video capturing in Vegas?”

Not unless you purchased a video card that captures like the Quadro SDI Capture. Otherwise, no… capture cards are usually separate from video cards. (Actually, that’s not a video card that captures but rather a capture card that links directly to your video card)

What kind of capture are you doing?

~jr

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[Dave Petteruto]

The reason I am asking is this–About a month ago my editing computer started freezing whenever I played a video file in any of my video viewing software (quicktime, windows media player & a Nero player)also freezez using Blufftitler (which uses video card). I can put the video on the Vegas timeline and view it with no problems. Because of this I was thinking I was having problems with the video card. Now today I am trying to capture some video via firewire using Vegas 7 and 9 (which I do all the time) and it is freezing up at randow times (after several attempts). So I was wondering if it could be video card related.

Thanks
Dave P.

[John Rofrano]

Well… if you have the video preview on then I guess it’s using the video card to display the frames it’s capturing. Try turning off the video preview and see if it helps.

~jr

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[Dave Petteruto]

Thanks John, I’m trying a capture without the preview on right now. We will see what happens.

Thanks
Dave P.

[Dave Petteruto]

Disabling the preview seemed to solve the freezup problem during capture. Thanks John. Now I need to figure out whats wrong with this damn computer!

Thanks
Dave P.

[John Rofrano]

You’re welcome. Yea, you should not be having problems like that but I’m glad that solved it for you for now.

~jr

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