[Virginia Morley]

Thanks very much guys! I will do some experimenting as suggested, but also look at some stand alone products to achieve a ‘proper’ sparkle.

Cheers!

Virginia

[Virginia Morley]

Thanks very much for your help! I will go find some friends………….

[Virginia Morley]

I think you have the answer! I also found some stuff on another forum about Vidcap 60.exe not opening on the early build 84 of Vegas. This may also explain why I don’t have some of the options in Preferences (e.g. “Enable DV device control”), which should be where you all say it is. Maybe that option was added after my build of the program.

So can I just download this 3.5MB Vidcap 60.exe (d) from somewhere, or do I have to download the whole 250MB Vegas program to use it? I’m not in a position to buy another Vegas program & am not on broadband/cable to be able to download hundreds of megabites.

Thanks so much for your help!

Virginia

[Virginia Morley]

Thanks for this info! Could you please clarify: do you mean Options-Preferences-Video from the main toolbar? If I check the “Use external video capture application”, C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas 6.0\vidcap60.exe is highlighted in the box below. Problem is: when I then go File-Capture video………….nothing happens at all. No Capture dialog box opens, nothing.

If I uncheck this box, the Capture dialog box opens, but then I get the big blue “Device not available” box where I assume it would otherwise say Panasonic DV camera (my camera).

I went & found the Video Capture Release notes in the Vegas program files, & they advise to check the “Enable DV device control” in the Preferences dialog. AGAIN: WHERE IS THIS??? This does not appear ANYWHERE in Options-Preferences in the main program, & also not in the preferences contained in the Capture dialog box.

Where else can I find some Preferences to change? I assume the INTERNAL/EXTERNAL capture advice you have given is somewhere different to these 2 locations I have described. I am using Vegas 6 build 84.

Many thanks for your advice!