My video Camera is a Sony DCR-HC90. I connect it to the computer through the USB port. I open Sony vegas and turn the camera on. I open the capture portion, and press play on the camera, and then begin to capture the video as it is displayed on the screen.
The video looks great on the LCD camera screen and on a TV, but is extremely pixelated and hard to identify after capture. I captured about 1 minute of footage and the file size was 1.5 GB. That seems a bit high.
Under the video tab, under properties the output size is 320 X 240 and cannot be changed. Under the video properties nothing can be changed.