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Proust

Can anyone please let me know how to capture analogue video on a Vaio VGN-A217S? I have tried the docking station as well but with no success. Please help, I'm desparete...

kee-lo_

On the docking station there should be a phono type plug which is yellow, and two other plugs, one white and one red. Connect your camera to those.

hldomster

This is completely off-yopic, and I apoligise, but: kee-Lo, on your hompage, in your latest post you refer to a link that Sbe fopund for you from CV, what is the link.

kee-lo_

Dom thats terribly off topic!
It's about the "have you got a virus or is it a Windows process" which TR posted in the Solutions room, the links are further down the page.

Seb found the link

Proust

I have tried all the connections including the S-video without success. My query is HOW do you use the software (e.g. Adobe's Premier) to capture analogue video? Every time I try I get some sort of error message. Do I need an additional video capture card? On my desktop everything worked fine and I've been able to capture/export both analogue and DV.

kee-lo_

What error message are you getting?

stephanius

You can not use Adobe Premiere to capture from the TV-tuner card in the docking station. Please use Vaio Zone to record from the external input. That will result in mpeg2 files which you can burn as Video DVD from withhin Vaio Zone.

I dont know how you can work with these mpeg files in Premiere, but there should be a way.

tellingd

As far as I am aware you cannot use any format of 'mpeg' files within Premiere as this is a compressed format. You would need to have uncompressed (eg 'avi') files if you want to edit them.

I encountered this some time ago and purchased a Canopus ADVC 110, which is good but the bundled software is a little limited.