Issues with capyuring HD video

[RockWood610]

Hello,

I just got a Canon HV 30 video camera today. I have been using Sony Vegas 7/8 for my video editing software. Here is my issue:

When I open Sony Vegas, I goto the capture option. It asks me if I want to capture DV or HDV/SDI. What one should I pick? I tried DV, and it won't see my camera wicth I have connected via fire wire. When i pic HD, it sees the camera ok, and I captured from it ok.

Now, when I captured from Vegas 7 on my desktop (Icurrently can't use Vegas 8 on my desktop, I only have 1 gig of ramm in it), I was able to capture and play back on the timeline the video I captured. But I have an older video card on my desktop, and play back was very choppy because of it being higher quality HD video.

So I booted up my laptop witch is Vista ready with a higher end video card. I opened Vegas 8, clicked on "capture" and choose the HDV option. It started to play/capture just fine, but afterwords I tried dragging and dropping the clip into the timeline, and an error message pops up saying "File format not supported". And it was that very program that just made the file. The file's ectension was "m2t" or something like that.

Now I have been capturing/editing and making DVDs with SD video for the last 4 years. HD is a whole new deal to me... am I doing something wrong???

Please help!

[Soopafresh]

I've heard of that problem in Vegas. There's a bug on some computers. Use HDVSplit to capture, then drag the .M2T file into your Vegas timeline.

[RockWood610]

Wow soopafresh... thanks yet AGAIN. I can see you will be a great help to me... hahaha. I'll give this a try. So far Vegas 7 doesn't have the issue... but Vegas 8 does... on a XP desktop and Vista laptop.

Like I said, I am very new to all of this... and any further help from ya would be great. Any chance we could get a direct e-mail address? Hahaha