Vegas Movie Studio and Canon HV20,30,40 user's

[hpharley90]

According to my Vegas tutorial I am supposed to be able to capture my HDV from my HV40.
I get the the "Device not available" error.

I did a search on it and it seems I'm the only one with a problem.
Even a YouTube video shows the procedure I do.
I check mark the correct boxes and and have tried different ways to engage camera.
Camera on before opening Vegas or Vegas on then camera etc. And I do get the boing boing when connecting or disconnecting fire wire.
Nothing. Device not available.

I know I can use HDVSplit. That's what I use now. But I don't like the long clip it makes.
I prefer the individual clips I got when I used Premiere Elements 2.0 to capture my SD video.

Have any of you users tried the capture in Vegas and what results do you get?

[Chris B]

HDV Split works fine for me capturing from my HV30. I makes separate clips for each change in the time code. Make sure you have the "scene split" box checked.

I've not used Vegas to capture the video since I though I was using it with PE4 at the time. However I am editing that video in Vegas with no issues so far.

[hpharley90]

HDV Split works fine for me capturing from my HV30. I makes separate clips for each change in the time code. Make sure you have the "scene split" box checked.

Thanks Chris. I will look at that later today.

I found my problem. I had the DV Locked setting set on camera. I think that is the second time I've done that.
I have it set to HDV and it will capture in Vegas now.
I will try it right now.

[Chris B]

Got to be the easiest & most common mistake in the book that one....

[hpharley90]

I don't know why I thought HDVSplit captured in one long clip. I just captured using it and scene detect seems to be the default.

Oh well. All is fine.