flr169 0 #1 December 29, 2008 Hey all.... I have a demo copy for now until I can purchase a real copy of vegas 9 platinum... Any was I have 2 camera's i'm trying to get video off of... HC5 (tape) SR5 (hard drive) Material on both cameras has been recorded in HD.. For some reason I was able to get the SR5 to upload onto the laptop via the vegas program but not all the files came off....there is 144 files and only 38 uploaded.... HC5 ( for some reason, vegas doen't see it....therefore I can't upload the material onto my laptop... ) hope this makes sense... previously my girlfriend and I where using windows movie maker.....I know cheap software but it worked for us... now that we have the HD camera we need to learn vegas.... Do I need to install that sony cd ( picture motion browser ) Alao is there some type of software or free ware to view the .mts files that came off my bros SR5 camera. thanks for any info / help MikeLife's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting - "fcuk me what a ride!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PharmerPhil 0 #2 December 30, 2008 QuoteHC5 ( for some reason, vegas doen't see it....therefore I can't upload the material onto my laptop... ) I hope you are using Firewire to upload... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flr169 0 #3 December 30, 2008 yes i'm using the fire wire cable that came with the camera... when I plugged it into the camera and laptop, it installed something....wasnt really paying attention (dogs) needed to go out....Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting - "fcuk me what a ride!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PharmerPhil 0 #4 December 30, 2008 Sorry, I don't really know Vegas at all. I was just going for the obvious. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DSE 5 #5 December 30, 2008 Be sure you're using the HD/SDI capture app vs the DV capture app. Be sure the camera isn't in downconvert mode. These two are the most common culprits in any capture issue with HDV. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flr169 0 #6 December 30, 2008 I will have to look into that later today with the HC5 camera... With the SR5 cam of my brothers...I'm able to connect with his cable to my vaio laptop and use vegas to start the upload/import of his material... on the little window it says 1 of 174 and then as more is downloaded the % bar goes up... it get to about a 142 files uploaded then it gives me this error.. "an error occurred while opening one or more files. The reason for the error could not be determined." I tried doing this last night about 4 times....the last 2 attempts where with everything shut off...except for vegas ... thanks for any info... \ MikeLife's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting - "fcuk me what a ride!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DSE 5 #7 December 30, 2008 Very important question; are you using 8C? There is a known bug with HDV files in Vegas 7c/d and 8 a/b. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydiveoc 0 #8 December 30, 2008 I am new to vegas (end of summer 09) and used the PMB browser to view files then import to vegas. Couldn't use windows files easily so just got used to this route. DSE could probably guide an easier route but this just worked for me. Download to PMB, analize files, then import to vegas. Still like it better than old board. Makes me feel smarter and that's hard to do! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flr169 0 #9 December 30, 2008 Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Version 9.0b ( build 92 ) This is the demo that I downloaded...until I can purchase it.... MikeLife's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting - "fcuk me what a ride!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
idrankwhat 0 #10 May 20, 2009 QuoteVery important question; are you using 8C? There is a known bug with HDV files in Vegas 7c/d and 8 a/b. Do you know if 8 pro has this bug? I was having problems capturing HD last night. It about drove me crazy. I could manipulate the camera through the capture window but there was no video preview and nothing was actually captured. I only had success when I downconverted to SD. Also, I'm going under the assumption that I can download in HD but that I can render the final project in SD for DVD if I choose to. Any advice from anyone would be appreciated before I start banging my head on this again tonight. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DSE 5 #11 May 20, 2009 8C doesn't have any HDV issues, and the issues present in 8a and 8b are relevant to specific cameras. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
idrankwhat 0 #12 May 20, 2009 Quote8C doesn't have any HDV issues, and the issues present in 8a and 8b are relevant to specific cameras. Thanks, that's good to know. I didn't want to beat my head looking for a "PEBKAC" or "PEBCAC" (in this case) problem when it resided in the software. I guess that means it's a setting issue but I can't for the life of me figure out why it it would only work half way. I'll give it another go this evening. If I have any more headbanging I'll try to be more specific when I throw out the call for help. Thanks again. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
