I almost had a situation today where I needed to capture a video in a hurry, but Vegas 10 wouldn't capture for some reason. I would click capture video and it would do nothing at all (not even an error message). When I browsed into the Sony folder and ran Vidcap60.exe manually I actually did get an error message, but it was pretty non specific.

Luckily I decided to right click on vidcap60.exe and select "troubleshoot compatibility" and sure enough it told me that it needed to be run in Windows XP SP2 mode to capture. I was able to run it finally and capture the video.

I am glad I figured it out, but I'm also a bit dismayed that Sony would ship this thing with a version of vidcap that Windows 7 won't run. I typically work with HDV so I use hdvsplit, but this particular job was a DV job and it almost went south.

both work here on 7/64bit....

Yeah, I'm using Ultimate 64bit too. Strange.

i'm pro - not sure if that makes any difference anyway?

you do run as admin right? (be surprised if you didn't).

Yup...admin. I wonder if there's a setting to always have it analyze compatibility and run a program. At first I thought it was a 64bit/32bit thing.

think you'll find the ability to set compatibility under the shortcut properties.

When we first got a Win 7 machine, we tried to capture DV and could not get it to work. After some searching on the internet, we finally found the solution which required us to revert to a legacy firewire driver. After doing that, everything worked great.