Recording a sport event with Vegas 16 and an old Sony FX1

[Marcus Martell]

Hallo, i wanted to ask your help and suggestions.
I need to record a live sport game and i'll bring with me the old Sony HDV FX1 camcorder. I will connect the camera to my pc trough firewire; here come my doubts:
to record in real time in the tape and in my pc internal hard drive what should i do in Vegas?
Is it possible?
Thank you

[Edward Troxel]

First of all, test it before hand!

To record in the camera, just hit the record button.

To record for VEGAS in the PC, you need to make sure this is working first as, typically, capture on the computer for newer computers (Win 7, Win 10) has required you to install the legacy firewire driver. Then you should be able to just open the Capture program in Vegas and set it to capture from your device. You will want to turn off "device control".

Alternatively, you could use a separate program to capture HDV. A quick Google search will show many of them available. For DV, I liked Scenalyzer Live but I never did HDV.

[Marcus Martell]

Hey Ed,
what a pleasure to hear from you! Hope you are fine...
First of all thanks! I just followed your suggestions and my pc captures easy the footage from the camcorder trough firewire....Glad for that!
But my question is: what do you mean whaen you wrote"You will want to turn off "device control"?
I didn't get what i should turn off
Thanks ED

[Edward Troxel]

When device control is turned on, the capture program will try to tell you camera to "play" to start the capture. With device control turned off, it will just capture whatever is passed through. If yours is working correctly, it sounds like it may be turned off. I know the option is in the DV capture option but it may not be in the HDV option. You just don't want the capture program to control the camera. You only want it to capture what is coming in.

[Marcus Martell]

Ed where can I switch in the device control to on? I decided to capture just the clips I'm recording with the button of the camcorder...

[Edward Troxel]

It would be in the preferences. If everything is working correctly for you, I wouldn't worry about it. I don't have a firewire card in this laptop so I can't get to the correct place to check for HDV. For DV, it's in this attached image.

[Marcus Martell]

Thank you so much Edward! everything went well but i have another question related to the capture of the old HDV tapes!
Every clip has the last frame with a black drop once i drag em in the timeline. Did you create a script to get rid of the blad frames at the end of the clips?
Many thanks for the help you are giving me

MM

[Edward Troxel]

/**
 * This script will trim the front and back for all selected events.
 * TrimFrontAndBack.js
 * 
 * Written By: Edward Troxel
 * Copyright 2004 - JETDV Scripts
 * Modified: 08-03-2005
 **/

import System;
import System.IO;
import System.Windows.Forms;
import Sony.Vegas;


var trimAmt = new Timecode("00:00:01:00");


try {

  //Go through the list of Tracks
  var trackEnum = new Enumerator(Vegas.Project.Tracks);
  while (!trackEnum.atEnd()) {
    var track : Track = Track(trackEnum.item());

    //Go through the list of Events
    var eventEnum = new Enumerator(track.Events);
    while (!eventEnum.atEnd()) {
      var evnt : TrackEvent = TrackEvent(eventEnum.item());

      if (evnt.Selected) {
        var dStart = evnt.Start + trimAmt;
        var dLength = evnt.Length;

	//Get current take offset
	var tke = evnt.ActiveTake;
	var tkeoffset = tke.Offset;
	tkeoffset = tkeoffset + trimAmt;
        evnt.Start = dStart;
	tke.Offset = tkeoffset;
    
        dLength = dLength - trimAmt - trimAmt;
        evnt.Length = new Timecode(dLength);    
      }
      eventEnum.moveNext();
    }
    trackEnum.moveNext();
  }


} catch (e) {
    MessageBox.Show(e);
}

If you only want to trim the end, get rid of this:

//Get current take offset
var tke = evnt.ActiveTake;
var tkeoffset = tke.Offset;
tkeoffset = tkeoffset + trimAmt;
evnt.Start = dStart;
tke.Offset = tkeoffset;

And change this:
dLength = dLength - trimAmt - trimAmt;

to:
dLength = dLength - trimAmt;