[Ted Snow]

Thanks again for the info John. I looked thru my manual and didn’t see anything referring to pass thru either. I guess I do still have a use for my VX2100. It captures a good picture via pass thru but I was hoping for the better resolution with the Z7U. I suppose Sony figured we didn’t need that feature on our cameras anymore 🙂 .

Makes me curious now about your Z1U with analog/digital conversion pass thru. I wonder if that’s only a signal coming into the A/V jacks to the camera, or if it will actually pass thru the live video feed from the camera to the firewire as the VX2100 does….interesting.

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Sony VX2100
Sony HVR-Z7U
Sony HDR-CX130
Alesis HD24

[Ted Snow]

I would first try what Mike recommended but if you can’t get that to work you might try this….

One way that I have worked around this problem is to split the CD audio track pretty frequently…maybe after every line of the song. You can then slip the audio to match the video’s audio track (zoom in pretty close and ALT+drag). The only problem with doing this is that you can end up with some pops at the split points. To fix this…just make sure ripple if turned off and do a small crossfade of a few frames at each split.

It may depend on how “busy” the song is as to whether this will work or not…but it might be worth a try. You might make a copy of your veg file by saving it as a new name and experiment with that file.

I’ve done this with really good results, but like I said it may depend on how busy the song is so…YMMV

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Canopus ACEDVio card
Thermaltake V9 BlacX Edition case
Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU Cooler
Win 7 Pro
VEGAS 8.0
VEGAS 11.0 32 & 64 bit
Sony VX2100
Sony HVR-Z7U
Sony HDR-CX130
Alesis HD24

[Ted Snow]

I can’t positively answer your question but I would suspect that you can only have two separate views per video card. I have a duel setup using two 28″ monitors, but I would think that if you tried to use all three outputs on your video card, two of the units would be cloned…still giving you only two separate views. I don’t know this for a fact, but that would be my guess.

I do have a third monitor which is actually a 27″ CRT monitor for video monitoring…but it’s connected to a Canopus ACEDVio card via s-video.

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Canopus ACEDVio card
Thermaltake V9 BlacX Edition case
Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU Cooler
Win 7 Pro
VEGAS 8.0
VEGAS 11.0 32 & 64 bit
Sony VX2100
Sony HVR-Z7U
Sony HDR-CX130
Alesis HD24

[Ted Snow]

Thanks for the reply John. Actually I’d like to capture in HDV if possible just because of the resolution. But I’ve never captured pass thru with the Z7U and didn’t know if it was even possible with these cameras. Is the capture utility able to capture a pass thru HD signal?…and if so, does it capture the same file type it records onto the MRC?

I suppose I could just record the signal to a CF card with the MRC…but I could save some time and extra steps if I can just capture a pass thru signal directly to the PC.

Thanks a bunch for your help.

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Canopus ACEDVio card
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Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU Cooler
Win 7 Pro
VEGAS 8.0
VEGAS 11.0 32 & 64 bit
Sony VX2100
Sony HVR-Z7U
Sony HDR-CX130
Alesis HD24

[Ted Snow]

Thanks for the response Dave. I may go ahead and do the updates and see what happens. I do think I will save all my projects with a different name while using the updated versions just in case I do run into any problems…although I’m not sure why since I’ve been having trouble with the “Sony has quit working” error message anyway. 🙂

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Canopus ACEDVio card
Thermaltake V9 BlacX Edition case
Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU Cooler
Win 7 Pro
VEGAS 8.0
VEGAS 11.0 32 & 64 bit
Sony VX2100
Sony HVR-Z7U
Sony HDR-CX130
Alesis HD24

[Ted Snow]

If you have an old miniDV or Digital8 camcorder laying around…most of them have what is called DV pass thru. This is what I use. You just use the mini plug A/V cable that came with your camcorder and hook that up to your VCR. Then use a firewire cable from the camcorder to the computer (if you have a firewire port, which most newer computers have).

Use the capture utility within Vegas to capture the video.

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Canopus ACEDVio card
Thermaltake V9 BlacX Edition case
Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU Cooler
Win 7 Pro
VEGAS 8.0
VEGAS 11.0 32 & 64 bit
Sony VX2100
Sony HVR-Z7U
Sony HDR-CX130
Alesis HD24

[Ted Snow]

I would like to think that the bug with the solo of the buses in the mixer section has been fixed…but I’m not gonna hold my breath. Too many bugs with the video portion of Vegas has to be fixed first I suppose.

I DO hope Sony fixes this though. I’d rather not have to go back to Ver. 8.0c to do audio (which worked perfectly). Although I have to use the 32 bit version of 11 since my 3rd party plugins are 32 bit and will not work in the 64 bit version.

By the way…can someone point me in the right direction as to where to post a description of a bug in ver 11 to SCS ? I sent a message to customer support but I’m not sure that is the correct place to let them know about this bug.

I suspect that this bug will be put on the back burner for a fix since it is an audio bug instead of a video bug. Anyone who does pro audio as much as I do with Vegas, and needs to be able to solo buses…would, like me, love to see this fixed. 🙂

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Canopus ACEDVio card
Thermaltake V9 BlacX Edition case
Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU Cooler
Win 7 Pro
VEGAS 8.0
VEGAS 11.0 32 & 64 bit
Sony VX2100
Sony HVR-Z7U
Sony HDR-CX130
Alesis HD24

[Ted Snow]

The main reason I do it this way is because I always add a volume envelope to my tracks and pull the volume to “0” using keyframes during any place there is no audio content. That way I have no noise that could come from the track unless it’s supposed to.

So when I pull down the volume envelope at the end of the audio track, it pulls down the reverb tail along with it. With the reverb on a bus instead of the track itself…the reverb tails off naturally even when the track itself is muted.

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Two Seagate Barracuda 500g SATA III drives
16 Gig G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 1600
Canopus ACEDVio card
Thermaltake V9 BlacX Edition case
Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU Cooler
Win 7 Pro
VEGAS 8.0
VEGAS 11.0 32 & 64 bit
Sony VX2100
Sony HVR-Z7U
Sony HDR-CX130
Alesis HD24

[Ted Snow]

[James Kumorek] “The level of surgery that this will likely require is not what the audio aspects of Vegas are really designed for, IMHO.”

Actually…VEGAS was an audio software before it was video software. Vegas was the multitrack version of Sound Forge before Sonic Foundry incorporated video into it.

Vegas is quite capable of doing any audio editing you could ever want to do IMHO.

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ASUS P8P67 Deluxe MB
EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1 GB DDR 5
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Corsair HX750 power supply
Two Seagate Barracuda 500g SATA III drives
16 Gig G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 1600
Canopus ACEDVio card
Thermaltake V9 BlacX Edition case
Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU Cooler
Win 7 Pro
VEGAS 8.0
VEGAS 11.0 32 & 64 bit
Sony VX2100
Sony HVR-Z7U
Sony HDR-CX130
Alesis HD24

[Ted Snow]

[John Rofrano] “It depends on how you plan to connect it to your PC. If you are using a DVI connection then yes. If you are using HDMI out, probably not. I would check with DataColor support first.”

John,
Is it actually better to use the DVI connection rather than the HDMI connection coming out of the video card? I have an Nvidia 560Ti which has two DVIs and one HDMI out. Just curious if it’s better to use one over the other when using an LCD monitor.

I just saw where B&H has the Spyder 3 Pro for $99.50 after rebate. Definitely worth looking into.

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ASUS P8P67 Deluxe MB
EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1 GB DDR 5
Intel i7 2600k 3.4 Ghz
Corsair HX750 power supply
Two Seagate Barracuda 500g SATA III drives
16 Gig G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 1600
Canopus ACEDVio card
Thermaltake V9 BlacX Edition case
Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU Cooler
Win 7 Pro
VEGAS 8.0
VEGAS 11.0 32 & 64 bit
Sony VX2100
Sony HVR-Z7U
Sony HDR-CX130
Alesis HD24