Here is my history so far 3 weekes ago I bought a Sony HDR-HC3 and Vegas 6. It took about 2 days but I was finally able to capture video through the internal capture in Vegas but the preview on vegas never worked, I would have to look at the video on my HC3 lcd. It would capture but I would get about 3 video drop outs a minute, last time I was able to capture I got 38 different clips in 9 minutes of captured video. I was able to capture for about 2 weeks like this.
Then I could not capture anything , even the lcd on my HC3 was blue and when I would hit capture the screen would be blue but the timecode would be be rolling and skipping seconds at a time and maybe I will get a few half seconds if video captured.
I have downloaded HDVsplit ,& vegas 7 trial but none of them worked . So I un-installed everything and reloaded Vegas 6 and HDVsplit and I was able to capture 1 time on HDVsplit and once on vegsas 6 then I have not been able to capture since. I have un-installed and re-installed both a few time but Im not able to capture. I still get a blue lcd screen even on my camera when the firewire is attatched. I even tried a system restore to a previous date when capturing was working but it did notwork .
I have a 3ghzP4,1 gig of ram, a 200GB HD & a 400GB HD. Do I need more ram,a video card, or a new computer . Im so frustrated, any suggestions?
Thanks Joey