I just tried to re-capture several videos that I made nine months ago. At various points in the capture, about 1-3 seconds of video and audio were completely missing.
I went back and recaptured a short segment just before one of the glitches, and captured until ten seconds after the glitch. The exact same segment was missing. However, I could see and hear the video and audio on the monitor and from my camera during the capture, and nothing was missing. The tape plays fine.
I did the above capture and subsequent test with Vegas 4.0d on a WinXP Pro SP1 computer, capturing from a Sony TRV-11 NTSC camera. I've done lots of captures in the three years I've owned this camera, and not had anything like this.
I then tried the same test on my old Win98 SE computer that is running VideoFactory 2.0c. I got the same exact glitch.
But wait, I then captured on my old Win98 SE computer using Studio DV. No glitch! It captured perfectly.
I then captured using SCLive on my Win98 SE computer. Perfect capture. Nothing missing.
Being a glutton for punishment, I reconnected to my WinXP machine, rebooted (just for fun) and tried capturing again in Vegas 4.0d. Nope, the problem was back exactly as before, and just like with VideoFactory. I should also note that both Vegas and VideoFactory capture reported zero frames dropped.
I then fired up the latest version of SCLive (Scenalyzer) on my WinXP machine and captured the same footage. Pefect capture.
Thus, the same tape, across multiple computers and O/S configurations exhibits gaps when captured by Sonic Foundry products, but not when captured by other programs.
This is the first bug of this magnitude I have found in Vegas. This is nasty. As it turns out, I captured almost four hours, which I then converted into 2 DVDs for a client (which was the whole point of re-capturing the finished tapes). I didn't find the glitch until I played the first few mintues of one of the DVDs. It took one whole day to capture the four hours of video, render to MPEG, and burn in DVD-A. This looks like a major bug, and one that must have been there for some time, since it shows up in VideoFactory as well.
I have virtually nothing running in the background on either machine (not even anti-virus software). No Windows Messenger, etc. Not that would cause the problem to occur at the same point every time.
I will hang onto the tape in case is could be useful to diagnose the problem.
I went back and recaptured a short segment just before one of the glitches, and captured until ten seconds after the glitch. The exact same segment was missing. However, I could see and hear the video and audio on the monitor and from my camera during the capture, and nothing was missing. The tape plays fine.
I did the above capture and subsequent test with Vegas 4.0d on a WinXP Pro SP1 computer, capturing from a Sony TRV-11 NTSC camera. I've done lots of captures in the three years I've owned this camera, and not had anything like this.
I then tried the same test on my old Win98 SE computer that is running VideoFactory 2.0c. I got the same exact glitch.
But wait, I then captured on my old Win98 SE computer using Studio DV. No glitch! It captured perfectly.
I then captured using SCLive on my Win98 SE computer. Perfect capture. Nothing missing.
Being a glutton for punishment, I reconnected to my WinXP machine, rebooted (just for fun) and tried capturing again in Vegas 4.0d. Nope, the problem was back exactly as before, and just like with VideoFactory. I should also note that both Vegas and VideoFactory capture reported zero frames dropped.
I then fired up the latest version of SCLive (Scenalyzer) on my WinXP machine and captured the same footage. Pefect capture.
Thus, the same tape, across multiple computers and O/S configurations exhibits gaps when captured by Sonic Foundry products, but not when captured by other programs.
This is the first bug of this magnitude I have found in Vegas. This is nasty. As it turns out, I captured almost four hours, which I then converted into 2 DVDs for a client (which was the whole point of re-capturing the finished tapes). I didn't find the glitch until I played the first few mintues of one of the DVDs. It took one whole day to capture the four hours of video, render to MPEG, and burn in DVD-A. This looks like a major bug, and one that must have been there for some time, since it shows up in VideoFactory as well.
I have virtually nothing running in the background on either machine (not even anti-virus software). No Windows Messenger, etc. Not that would cause the problem to occur at the same point every time.
I will hang onto the tape in case is could be useful to diagnose the problem.