No video when capturing

[Malc]

Guys, I need some help.

I have VideoStudio X3 which has been had been running fine, however when I came to use it today I found that although I could capture video from within the capture tap, nothing was displayed on the "monitor" window. I've un-installed and re-installed and still nothing. I can control the tape transport via clicking on the play / pause / rew etc buttons under the monitor window, but there is no picture displayed. To check if this was a fault with the camera / Firewire card I launched Windows Movie maker and that displayed the incoming source without any problem, suggesting this is a VideoStudio issue.

System spec:
Vista Business 32bit
Dual core Pentium running at 2GHZ
4GB RAM
Asus 210 silent (Nvidea) with 1GB RAM

Panasonic NV=GS65 3CCD

Using the monitor on the camera I captured a clip (again nothing displayed within VS) which when placed on the time line played back on the VS monitor, although it was very interlaced with zig-zagy edging on movement.

Any ideas

Malcolm

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Malcolm

Welcome to the forum

I assume you are capturing to DV Format, Dv-Avi

If your software was running fine, what’s changed?
Maybe added a web cam. Other programs can take control of the capture firewire port.
Have you installed any other video software?

There is a free program WinDV, nice little piece of software that captures via firewire. http://windv.mourek.cz/
If you have problems here then its not VS

[Black Lab]

Make sure that the Instant Playback Target is set for Preview Window in Preferences.

[Malc]

Thanks for the replies, I'm not sure what I did, but I started a new project, using the default PAL settings and checked the Nvida control panel. Then tried again and it seems to work OK. I did record a clip over some existing video with the clip settings to cinema mode, so maybe the change in aspect ratio of the pixels confused it ?

Thanks guys for the help

Malcolm

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

If you capture to DV, then the DV-Avi will have the aspect ratio used by the camera.
Read my guide to Dv-Avi from the link below.

My Quick User Guide for Video Studio