Capturing Sound

Daubs · Post by **Daubs** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:29 pm

Hi to all, i,m new to this forum and just venturing into doing some video editing. I have recently downloaded the trial version of videostudio x2 and am finding it excellent and up to everything i want to do up to now eg capturing and editing video from a sony cam corder.
My next project is trying to capture then edit from a VHS tape via a video recorder but when I try this I get no sound with it just a picture, i can however capture with sound and picture using a different bit of software to a file on my hard-drive but videostudio will not import this file.
Any help and ideas gratefully recieved.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 11:13 pm

What are you using to capture the tape, and how is it connected?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 1:34 am

... and what is 'the other bit of software' and what format or formats does it capture in?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:39 pm

Please view:
VHS/Hi-8 to DVD

Daubs · Post by **Daubs** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:51 pm

To capture the video i am using a EZ grabber which is an external device and is connected via 2.0 USB conection on my laptop that runs through its own software that saves it to my hard drive as a AVI file and plays back ok with sound through mediaplayer, but when running the capture throu this device to videostudio is when I get no sound.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:33 pm

The problem is that AVI is just a wrapper extension for a wide variety of formats that use it. Can you please right click on one of the AVI files inside VS please and copy ALL its properties here please. Then we will know what we are dealing with...

Since writing the above, I have done a Google search for the EZ grabber, and it seems that a lot of people have a lot of trouble with it. However, one basic point made is that apart from it capturing in AVI (and that seems to be the huge, uncompressed AVI which runs at about 65 GB -- yes GB, not MB -- per hour), it is also capable of being set to capture in mpeg-2. Since the latter is the format required for a DVD, you should set it to capture in that format.

Daubs · Post by **Daubs** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:02 pm

The plot thickens, I now am not able to capture any video into VS as when I try to capture I get the error Cannot start capture graph which I see is a problem another user has encountered recently without a successful result, so I am not able to post up the properties of the captured video as I have deleted the previously capture videos.
The strange thing is I have now been able to import a video file grabbed thru EZ grabber and saved to a file on my hard drive by right clicking an using the insert video option rather than using the import digital media button which I had previously tried using, I have also taken the advice and grabbed it in DVD format on the grabber which has given me a much smaller file, so Iam now able to do something with it but any-more advice suggestions welcome as am intrigued to get it working correctly.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:50 pm

Insert video would be the correct command. Import digital media usually means from a DVD/CD...

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:28 am

Daubs wrote:T....., I have also taken the advice and grabbed it in DVD format on the grabber which has given me a much smaller file, ....

Which of course produces an MPEG2 file and not that awfully large 65GB per hour uncompressed avi file. See the earlier post by Ken.