A little OT: those of you using ScenalyzerLive

riredale wrote on 9/21/2003, 9:53 PM
I use ScenalyzerLive v2.1 instead of Vegas Vidcap for a number of reasons, but recently I found a problem and wanted to alert others. I recently bought a 200GB drive, and discovered that, when the drive was getting to about 80% full, I would suddenly get an ominous message within ScenalyzerLive of "Out of memory." I think what happens is that, since Scenalyzer builds an internal database of thumbnails in order to represent individual clips on the timeline, a point is reached where the memory set aside is maxed out. The problem is that as soon as you get that message, a number of your clips are greyed-out and unrecoverable, and in one instance most of the files on that disk were trashed. As mentioned, I think this limit is based on the number of clips, rather than the actual storage size of the clips, and I think that limit is about 500 clips on a drive.

A solution that seems to be working for the moment is to partition the 200GB drive into two 100GB drives. Scenalyzer seems perfectly happy with those partitions and also with my 120GB drives.

I have emailed a comment to the Scenalyzer fellow, and will report back any response.

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 9/21/2003, 11:22 PM
I've never captured more than two hours at once, so I've never come close to these limits. Andi, (the Scenalyzer author) is usually pretty responsive, so I suspect he'll have an answer for you.
riredale wrote on 9/24/2003, 11:19 AM
It's now a couple of days after my first post, and I've discovered that ScenalyzerLive is probably innocent here; one of my partitions on the 200GB drive has destroyed itself. My suspicion is that there is a disk problem, though all the diagnostics so far say it's fine.

I have gotten another 200GB drive and am in the laborious process of capturing all the video to that new drive (what a pain).

ScenalyzerLive is really a cool little program, and many of you might enjoy its features. One of the best is that it makes it very easy to point it towards a capure disk, and it will show beginning, middle, and ending images of all the clips on that disk, arranged chronologically.
johnmeyer wrote on 9/24/2003, 11:51 AM
It is and awesome product. Glad it wasn't at fault.