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Old February 19th, 2007, 05:52 PM   #1
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Digital pass-through- Vegas capture stops at 7 seconds?!?!

I am trying to capture some VCR tapes to my Vegas 6 capture. My mini DV has digital analog passthrough. The problem I am having is that is stops capturing - every time at 7 seconds. My drive is clean and defragged - so that doesn't seem to be the problem. The 7 seconds looks fine that is captured, but for some reason it won't capture more then that - any ideas? Last time I had to capture through MS moviemaker with XP BUT I want to go through Vegas is possible. Any ideas? There is nothing in preferences that says stop at scenes etc.
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Old February 19th, 2007, 06:06 PM   #2
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Are they commercial tapes? Movies?

If so, you may be running into copy protection.
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Old February 19th, 2007, 06:13 PM   #3
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Nope, a friend of mine owns a record label and he has a load of old VCR tapes of his bands music videos he wants digitized. Again, it works in MS moviemaker capture, but not in Vegas...weird.
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Old February 19th, 2007, 06:22 PM   #4
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Do you have another camera to pass it through? It could be the camera as well.

Not sure, but worth a try.
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Old February 19th, 2007, 06:26 PM   #5
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I don't. I have just finished using Moviemaker because Vegas 6 won't cooperate. Sucks, but at least I have the option. I just wonder what is wrong? I don't think it is the camera because it wouldn't work with MSMovieMaker if it was...
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Old February 19th, 2007, 07:12 PM   #6
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I don't. I have just finished using Moviemaker because Vegas 6 won't cooperate. Sucks, but at least I have the option. I just wonder what is wrong? I don't think it is the camera because it wouldn't work with MSMovieMaker if it was...
David, it's just a wild guess here, but Vegas may be looking for timecode which won't be present on an analog pass-through like you're doing. Windows Movie Maker, being a consumer oriented product, likely doesn't care about t/c.

Check to see if Vegas capture has a setting for 'uncontrolled device' or similar that will tell it you have a device without deck control and no timecode.

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Old February 19th, 2007, 08:22 PM   #7
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Did you turn off device control?
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Old February 19th, 2007, 09:07 PM   #8
 
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If Device Control is off, is it possible you've got a dropped frame at that point, and Capture is stopping on a dropped frame? You have Preferences to determine whether capture should or should not stop on dropped frames.
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Old February 20th, 2007, 02:10 AM   #9
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In the Video Capture program Preferences "CAPTURE" tab, I have "Minimum Clip Length (seconds)" set to "1".
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Old February 20th, 2007, 11:33 AM   #10
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Hi
This might be a stupied question, But is your version a copy? (No Need to answer).....Because if it is then I suggest you either move up to vegas 7 or down to vegas 5 as I know theirs a problem with some of the vegas version 6 cracks........Not all but some...as my friend had the same problem and it was his version of vegas.....

So Try to upgrade, that may help....
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