Ted Snow
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Vegas has to have a refference to a file…that’s why you have to save the snapshot as a file then put that file on the timeline.
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I was about to suggest checking your firewire connector socket on the camera…but I see that you’ve discovered that the port is indeed working. I had a Sony camera a while back that the firewire port quit working. Come to find out, one of the small pins in the port jack was bent and pushed down into the back of the port. I think what caused this was the use of a cheap firewire cable. I had bought some of those cheap cables on ebay (about $1.35 each). NEVER use these cables!!!!!!! Only use good quality firewire cables with a camera or any other piece of equipment worth having. I learned my lesson the hard way. Sad thing is…I have good quality cables, I just tried one of the cheap cables to see if they work. BIG MISTAKE.
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This might be a long shot too…but I recently had my camera replaced by Sony. The firewire port on the camera had a bent pin in it. The 4 pin connections seem to be quite fragile in my opinion. Anyone using cameras on a regular basis (not just your occassional home video maker) makes several connections to the firewire port and they can get damaged as I have found out first hand. Sony replaced my TRV350 with the newer TRV460 which in my opinion is a piece of junk. All the settings are done through the touch screen…manual focus, etc. which is a real pain. It was much easier to turn the data wheel on the 350 than to have to mess with the touch screen. I’m still waiting until the day I can get the VX2100. But until then I’m stuck with this inferior 460. I was hoping that Sony would just fix my camera, but instead they opted to replace it. I’ve read on several reviews where people say that Sony really took a step backward with replacing the 350 with the 460…and I agree 100%.
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Marc,
I was just curious about the driver software that came with the card itself. The card works fine the way it is right out of the box with no extra driver software installed, but I was curious as to whether it was worth installing it or not. I have always just used my Sony camcorder in the past as a capture device if I needed to capture a VCR tape or something. But if the driver software that came with the ACEDVio is worth installing, I might go ahead and install it since I will be using this card for captures now. I mainly got the card to use for external monitoring so I wouldn’t tie up my camera.
Thanks for the reply.
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Steve,
I saw a brand new Echo Mia sound card on Ebay the other day for $129 (Buy it Now). That’s a good price…I gave $169 for mine. These are pretty good cards…balanced ins and outs, +4 operating level, etc. -
I’m not at my editing computer right now, but look under “preferences” “audio” and make sure that the “record” section is pointing toward your on board sound card. Being able to hear the audio coming from your speakers doesn’t necessarily mean that it is being recorded into Vegas…only that the sound card is passing the signal to the speakers. My onboard sound card also shows signal on the meters even with no audio applied, but my Echo Mia doesn’t. I think most on board sound cards will show this “noise” on the meters.
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Just click on “Open” in photoshop…point to the directory where you saved the snapshot from Vegas. Should be able to open the file right up.