Sony Vegas 7 capturing

[rakunus]

Hello. I got this camcorder yesterday and I played with it a little. I shot something in HDV, HDV 24p, DV, 16:9 DV, everything on the same tape in different orders.
Then I transfered it to my PC with firewire. Every time you try to capture video in Sony Vegas it asks you if you want to capture HDV or DV so I chose DV first. Then I guess the program converted HDV to DV (or was it camcorder while I was changing the modes?). So I got all the video in DV, I think. Then I wanted to see HDV so I ordered Vegas to capture video again, this time in HDV. And then nothing happend. Vegas did not open capture dialog, nothing. I tried again with DV and everything worked.

So what should I do? Should I make just DV or just HDV tape next time? Should I try with the different program?

Thank you for your kind answers.

[Dodgy Nick]

So what should I do?

The short answer is you should not mix SD and HD on the same tape. In fact, you shouldn't even mix different framerates on the same tape (60i & 24p for example) Somebody correct me if I'm wrong...

[rakunus]

So the only problem was that I didn't switch tapes?
How much HDV goes on 60min miniDV?

[XFR]

How much HDV goes on 60min miniDV?

60 minutes?

[Murrelet]

Hi rakunus,

I have tapes marked SD, HDV, etc. so when I need a tape in a particular format it all goes on that identified tape. At least that's how I started. Now I find everything is shot as HDV 60i, so those other tapes are just starting to gather dust.

Hope this helps.

[rakunus]

60 minutes?

I know that's true for SD. Is it the same with HD?

[rakunus]

oh, wikipedia says that vegas is the best editing program for 24p. Yet I can't even capture anything!

[terjeber]

What are your problems with capturing? Are you still mixing HD and SD? That'll be very hard for any software to capture I think.