Problem with Analog Video Capture - Crash VS X7

[RWGroves3]

I'm trying to use a Roxio USB Analog capture dongle. USB315-E.

When I open VS X7 and go the capture tab, it recognizes the device. I can see the video feed in the preview window, but the frame shows up as multiple overlapping images and jumps around. When I try to capture the video VS X7 freezes momentarily and then crashes with no displayed errors. I've tried rebooting, updating video and audio drivers, etc. to no effect. The Roxio card works fine with debut video capture and with virtualDub, but I was hoping to do everything through VS X7.

What am I missing?

BTW - I get the same result when I try to capture from Vixs Tuner (PCI Card)

[BrianCee]

Many USB capture devices are "tweaked" so that they only work correctly with the software supplied with the device - there is no way round it - so you just use the software supplied to transfer the video to your hard drive - then simply import/insert into VideoStudio for editing and all other work.

No big deal - you already have the software and all VideoStudio would do if it could would be to transfer the video to your hard drive.

[Davidk]

Reinforcing what Brian said . . .

I have a Kaiser-Baas video-to-dvd usb capture device - and it will only work correctly with software from KB which came as part of the package, or from a download link supplied by KB. Originally, that was Power Director 6 on disk with the interface unit, a specially modified version (certainly wasn't the normal commercial version) and subsequently (a few years later and after a PC upgrade) with Magix software via a downloadable file.

Use it as intended - capture the video files (usually this means that you have to play the original analog device [mine was a VHS player] thru that capture interface, to the editing software) and then save or render the resulting 'captured' file as an mpg file of whatever specs are available via the capture software. Then import that to X7 and treat it as a new video file to worked with. Which might be seen as a bit of a time-consuming complicated nightmare, but since you are capturing from analog, recall that it probably will only need to be done once for each source item.

I suspect that any interface tweaking that is done is both in the hardware (perhaps a non-standard usb definition) and the related software. Certainly my interface hardware responded the same way to 2 different editing programs identified by the interface supplier.

Davidk