Vegas Video WDM capture?

[Valnar]

I had to ditch the great AVI_IO when I went to Win2K for my capturing since its a VfW application. I now use the freeware iuVCR. OK, and it works.

I see that Vegas Video 3.0 supports analog WDM capturing. Does anyone know if it does a good job with no audio sync problems? Can it capture over 2GB without needing to resync audio? No dropped frames?

Anyone test this?

Robert

[humdinger]

ive never had any probs using it to capture tv episodes with my ati card

[kabanero]

Vegas Video 3.0 can capure analog and FireWire.
Last week I captured 1 hour video from my D8 camcorder into AVI files. Vegas automatically splits those AVI files in chunks. Then I encoded into one MPEG1 file for XVCD without any need to merge multiple MPEGs. And I didn't notice any sync problems.

[Valnar]

But Kabanero, didn't you do just a direct DV/Firewire transfer in that particular example?

[kabanero]

Yes, I did DV/Firewire transfer/capture from my Digital 8 camcorder to my PC through firewire card. I didn't try analog capture with Vegas Video 3 using my ATI AIW 128 card.

[cybersincere]

Not all analog capture cards are supported by Vegas Video 3.0. In fact, if you read their current documentation, almost nowhere does it mention anything analog. They are really going full steam OHCI compliant IEEE1394 as a mode of data transfer. It is much more reliable, higher quality, easier to control from the software application. If you have analog data and you need consistent, sure-fired support from Vegas, get a Sony DVMC-DA2 Analog->Digital converter to digitize your analog signal on the fly. Then the external hardware can cooperate with the OHCI (Open Host Controller Interface) compliant IEEE1394 card and you'll get seamless DV capture. You won't get device control, but you will get capture.

[humdinger]

alternativly PAL users can look at the dazzle hollywood dv bridge