Vegas 6 for capturing

[mol3000]

I used vegas 6 to capture from my friends dv camcorder and i though it did great untill i see it captured my video in 32 second avi increments !!!!! WTF IS THAT......!!!!!! i need to capture my video in a whole mpeg2 format, but i cant find the settings. Where do i need to go to change my capture properties?????

[edDV]

Preferences
Capture
"Enable DV Scene Detection"
Uncheck

[mol3000]

ok i did that but it came out looking pixelated. On the same note i tried using moviestar 5 to capture this time because i no how to control everything but i capture again and it did the same as the vegas 6 did.... now im figuring it got something with me going thru my firewire card because when i use my dazzle dvd creation station 200 capture device on anything it keeps it all one big mpg 2 file. How can i get these softwares to capture my video like it suppose to??????

[edDV]

I've never had that problem. Good luck.

[mol3000]

ok.... with vegas 6..... how can i stop the avi file from being 14 gbs???? what the hell is that?????

[edDV]

That would be 62 min of DV video.

[mol3000]

OOKKKKK..... but is there anyway to capture the video at a smaller resolution or in mpeg 2 format which i think why its a smaller size?????

[mol3000]

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[DVFun]

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The best tool I have tried that captures directly into MPEG2 from DV tape with a resulting quality closest to the original DV material is InterVideo WinDVD Creator.
I had compared it to MainConcept MPEG Enc, which is supposed to be good, as well as to the lousy Ulead MF and InterVideo WinDVD Creator won hands down.
However, that the easiest way.
For best results in acquiring video footage and then encoding to mpeg2, IMHO nothing beats the combo WinDV + Canopus Procoder Express for both quality and value for the bucks.
The former is free and the latter costs only around 50 bucks.
Yes, it does take two steps to tget to mpeg2. But, after you've seen the results, you will not want to go back.
BTW, I am not affiliated with neither of the makers of the above softwares. I am just a happy customer!!!!

[guns1inger]

What do you intend to do with your video ? You have Vegas 6, so I assume you intend to edit the footage before converting it to a more suitable format, probably DVD. Vegas is a great editor, but it's format of preference is DV. Converting to mpeg-2 at capture time reduces quality and makes editing more difficult. I suggest that rather than wasting money on a mpeg-2 capture application, you would be better served spending that money on buying a big hard drive. If you are going to do video editing, you will need it.

Unless, of course, quality isn't something you are concerned with.