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Originally Posted by Jim Browning
...I did some searching and found a recommendation "enable the popup" that asks you whether you want to capture DV or HDV. The only way I could 'enable a popup' was to specify external capture software (Sony version 6.0). Doing that got the device recognized and I've managed to do some capturing, but:
A. I have to record the VHS to the camera and then do the capture from tape(doubles the time required) because the Sony external app insists on controlling the camera tape drive ...
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The external app is for DV. Sounds like you've got it basically working. (It's possible your earlier problems with the internal app were camera related, the HV20 probably won't upconvert SD to HDV.) The external app has a pref for "enable device control", you want that disabled. That should get you down to a single pass.
There's nothing in this chain that should produce a loud buzz. Is it possible you have a bad cable? Usually, you'll not want the 12bit default, but the 16bit.
If the sound is important and using a different cable doesn't clear it up, you could capture the audio separately into Vegas by hooking up the VHS-C player's audio output directly to the line input of your sound card, and enabling a Vegas audio track for recording - it's fairly simple, there's a place to select what device you're recording from. Then, you'd resync the audio with the video in a vegas project, group them... and you'll (finally) have a good capture.