[Catherine Filteau]

It’s okay, thanks for trying to help ! 🙂 I’ll do that right away.

[Catherine Filteau]

Yes, I did mean the place where the footage is kept in within the program.

I run a desktop, Alienware Aurora with 2-3 intern drives (3TB total)

The footage is actually on an internal drive, I was mistaken earlier.

[Catherine Filteau]

Thanks for replying.

The media is on an external drive.

I plugged the camera into my computer with an iLink cable, then opened up Vegas. I went in File>>Capture and selected ‘HDV’ in the popup box that appeared. I selected the camera in the ‘device’ section and Vegas detected it successfully (meaning I was able to play the footage and ‘see’ through the lens in the PC.) I started at the very beginning of the footage (which was recorded on a mini HD1080p tape) and pressed the ‘record’ button. The footage started playing and recording in a folder I had chosen on the external drive (because it’s 1TB and a lot faster than my other drives). When I was done, I pressed the ‘stop’ button and got the footage in the media library in .m2t format.

I can’t drag it onto the timeline at all. Nothing moves. At the bottom of the ‘media library’ window I have ‘media offline’ written.

I tried to look around the program, but since I’ve never used Vegas before and it’s my first time working with HD footage, I’m kind of lost. Hope you can help! Thanks

[Catherine Filteau]

You are indeed right. The footage has been recorded using the ‘capture’ fonction in Vegas while the camera was on playback. The footage was recorded in HDV and is in .m2t format.