Turning soung off...

[KicekFC]

I'm using Edius 3. I'm capturing a lot of hours of material on DV. And my quewstion is: Can I turn the sound off while the Edius is capturing? I can't listen to music or talk on Skype. THX for answers.

[GrassValley_KH]

Unfortunately no, it's not possible.

[SoundFreak]

Depends on how you capture !

If you use a dedicated video capture card to capture and you link the Audio output to the on-board mobo sound card, you will be able to mute the audio input (through windows control panel / audio settings) and still Skype all you want.

If using a standard Firewire input on a Desktop or Laptop I have no solution for you.

[GrassValley_KH]

Fortunately, the next version of EDIUS will run on Windows Vista, which lets you mute individual applications.

[vidadf]

Fortunately, the next version of EDIUS will run on Windows Vista, which lets you mute individual applications.

I'm still using XP and I have spent about 40 minutes looking for a mute for capture. Please add this feature!! It can't be that hard to do, and it's ***really helpful*** when doing bulk capture of DV and HDV tapes via firewire.

Currently using Edius 5.0.

[antonsvideo]

I am also using XP and I can turn the volume down on my external amp during capture

[redgum]

But wouldn't that turn all your applications down?

[TrackRanger]

I'm using Edius 3. I'm capturing a lot of hours of material on DV. And my quewstion is: Can I turn the sound off while the Edius is capturing? I can't listen to music or talk on Skype. THX for answers.

Hmmm. Skype is extremely CPU and I/O intensive. Capture is I/O intensive. And you want to talk on Skype while you capture? I think that exposes you unnecessarily to capture problems. Run Skype on a different system, or not while you attempt capture would be my recommendation.

[antonsvideo]

But wouldn't that turn all your applications down?

not at all, it only turns off the sound from video, this has nothing to do with PC sounds

I have a feeling that the OP does not have an external amp and is routing the output of NX to the input of his sound card

[redgum]

Anton, I don't think KicekFC has either an amp or an NX card. He certainly hasn't mentioned them.

[antonsvideo]

Anton, I don't think KicekFC has either an amp or an NX card. He certainly hasn't mentioned them.

you are correct, I read the signature of soundfreak by mistake, it was in orange and somehow hit me in the face to read it

[vidadf]

I'm still using XP and I have spent about 40 minutes looking for a mute for capture. Please add this feature!! It can't be that hard to do, and it's ***really helpful*** when doing bulk capture of DV and HDV tapes via firewire.

Currently using Edius 5.0.

To Canopus developers in Japan: Responding to some of the recent posts, I don't know about the OP, but I am using firewire capture, which means I get the audio at full blast out of my PC speakers. That means I cannot listen to music, do youtube or hulu, or do anything with audio while I am capturing. Since I capture a lot of video, I find this to be pretty annoying. Sure I could get a second system, but that seems like an extreme workaround, when a mute button on the capture function would do the trick. Does anyone know of a practical workaround in Windows XP? I used Vista briefly but it was a dog.

Addressing the other point about doing two things at once, I haven't had any problems with dropped frames or bad captures. Haven't used Skype, but again firewire capture means you can't do anything else that involves listening to audio.

[redgum]

Seeing that it is always risky multi-tasking whilst capturing with any NLE I'd go out and buy a stand alone CD player, boom box or MP3.
I hate sitting around while I capture 60 minute tapes and if I'm capturing shorter sequences it needs my full attention anyway.
But good luck if you can convince Japan to give you a mute button.

[francoe]

vidadf , try some app like IndiVolume, and mute Edius.