

If your camcorder has a standard or mini S-Video output connection use the appropriate S-video and composite audio connection.If your camcorder has a mini A/V output jack, use an A/V cable with a mini connection on one end.If your camcorder has standard Audio/Video (A/V) input jacks, use standard A/V cables for the connection.Connect an A/V cable to the A/V output jack of the 8mm or Hi8™ camcorder.If you are attempting to capture video to a VAIO computer, additional information may be available by searching the Knowledge Base again using the model number of the VAIO computer. The A/V capture card in some VAIO® computers will work with preinstalled Sony software such as VAIO Zone, Click to DVD™ only, and DVgate Plus™ software only.The Windows® computer must have standard Audio/Video (A/V) input jacks and compatible video capture software (Sony® Vegas Movie Studio + DVD, Pinnacle® Studio Plus, Ulead VideoStudio®, etc.) to complete this procedure.Not sure how this can be addressed, but it is something (as a paying customer) I would love to see addressed and soon. Unfortunately, this issue prevents that, since all recordings from Mirillis Action (excluding AVI) is completely unusable and Time-Shift is only compatible with the MP4 codecs. I'm annoyed because with Time-Shift, and the ability to record the microphone into a separate audio track, I was on the brink of using it exclusively and showing ShadowPlay the door. That, or it imports everything, but the audio is cut off halfway through the clip. It used to be that Vegas Pro would take ages to build the peaks for Action recordings, but would import without problems - to only importing the audio tracks quickly with no video. Even using the mcmp4plug2.dll plugin (although looks fine on the surface) has issues with the last portion of any given clip being blacked out.

The performance during playback and editing utilizing that plugin is abysmal. The "fixes" people post (switching to qt7plug.dll) is not an option. Something that makes it incompatible with Vegas Pro's compoundplug.dll. I have no idea what changed, but something did. Point being, all those programs import their MP4's into Sony Vegas Pro utilizing the compoundplug.dll plugin without any issue whatsoever. Same with Open Broadcaster (NVIDIA NVENC), Bandicam (NVIDIA NVENC) and Dxtory (MP4 codec). In addition to that, ShadowPlay (NVIDIA NVENC) currently, and always has imported flawlessly. It was sometime down the line after numerous updates that suddenly the Action MP4 codec became incompatible. Why you may ask? Simple: older recordings from Action dating back to November 2014 import flawlessly. Now, most people would say to simply delete and/or replace it with another plugin, most notably qt7plug.dll. This is due to an issue with the compoundplug.dll plugin. Mirillis Action's MP4 codec (regular or NVIDIA NVENC) doesn't work properly with Sony Vegas Pro 11/12/13.
