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Caruso wrote on 12/29/2001, 9:02 PM
It splits any capture that exceeds 4gig, digital or analog.

Caruso
Karma2001 wrote on 12/29/2001, 10:49 PM
Thanks for the reply... If VidCap 3.0 will break up analog captures, I'm doing something wrong.

Here's what I'm doing.....

Under the Disk Management tab of Preferences I have one path (folder) specified on a dedicated A/V drive. I have the Maximum DV Clip Size (Megabytes) option enabled, and have tried to set the value to a range of options (from 500 to 4000) but when I capture, I always run into the 4.19 gig file size limit..

Is there something else to this I'm missing? Here's my system...

Win98SE
PIII 700
512 Megs RAM
Dedicated A/V drive
Drives are ATA100
ATI All In Wonder Radeon
DirectX 8.1

Thanks again to everyone in this forum... very helpful community.

Karma

Chienworks wrote on 12/29/2001, 11:47 PM
Well, this post will be less than helpful for you, but i will note that when
i've used an ATI capture card (i've tried several different models), the
results have been .... ummm, how shall i put it? .... chaotic, very random
and unrepeatable, and pretty much useless. In some cases i'd get a
capture file that ran at the wrong speed, and the audio & video streams
would be different lengths.

I'm guessing that when you capture through the ATI card, the capture
software isn't getting data that it can reliably make sense of, and therefore
doesn't know when to split it into separate files.
Karma2001 wrote on 12/30/2001, 12:23 AM
Thanks again....

Now, before I throw myself off a bridge, what capture card would be reccommended by this forum? I like the feature set of the ATI (though oddly enough I am kinda wishing they would work a little better). So is there a good primary display card/Tuner/Analog capture card out there that people have had good success with when coupled to VV 3.0 and the SF cature program?

Luckily I have other computers that the AIWR will make a nice addition to....

Karma
deef wrote on 12/30/2001, 8:07 PM
4 gig limit and auto start capturing to another file is only supported with DV. Similarly, it the disk runs out of space and you have another disk setup, only with DV will it auto start capturing to another drive.
Karma2001 wrote on 12/30/2001, 9:06 PM
Thanks for setting the record straight.....

Karma
Chienworks wrote on 12/30/2001, 11:06 PM
Your best option is an external analog to DV converter. I got the Sony
DVMC-DA2 ($300) and connect it to the A/V outs on my VHS VCR
and the firewire port on the computer. Anything i play on the VCR becomes
a DV input just like i would get from a DV camcorder. It also works in
reverse; DV signal sent out through the firewire port will be converted
to analog A/V and can be recorded back onto VHS. The quality is
fantastic!

About 5 minutes after i got the thing set up and tested, i removed ALL
the ATI software from my computer, and good riddance to it too! ;)
Karma2001 wrote on 12/31/2001, 9:57 AM
Great suggestion..... I've been looking back through the posts on this forum regarding this subject and that looks like the way to go.... I have decided that I'm going to go ahead an up my PC to WINXP and add another 100gigs of fast storage.... I'm a musician who gotinto video kinda on the side and I'm finding out quickly enough is never, ever enough... Video on a PC right now reminds me of what it was like doing audio on one 6 or 7 years ago... the constant struggles to get everything to play nicely together.. the constant realizations that you need bigger, faster EVERYTHING..... ahhhh, memories....

Thanks again for all the help to everyone... Happy New Year.