Analog capture - capturing whole tape

snaimpally wrote on 7/17/2002, 11:13 PM

When capturing DV input, 'capture tape' causes Vegas to create multiple avi files, each of 4G or less in size to get around the 4G max file size in Win 95/98. Analog capture however only allows me to capture a clip. As soon as the 4G size is reached (after a few minutes of capture) it stops capture. This seems inherently silly. If it can write multiple avi files when capturing DV input from firewire, why can't it do the same for analog captures?

I am using a Gainward Ti/500 XP Vivo for analog capture. Works great except for this annoying limit of VV3.
I have a P4 1.7Ghz, 2 Maxtor 80G 7200/UDMA133 disks, Windows ME.

I have checked all the preference dialogs and checked in the manual and not found anything for getting around this. Please help!

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 7/18/2002, 7:56 AM

Perhaps the next version of VidCap will do so. The previous one didn't even split DV captures automatically. VidCap is growing very rapidly these days; look for updates soon.

wcoxe1 wrote on 7/18/2002, 12:28 PM

Goodness, I hope that it will do good Analogue capture of scenes to SEPARATE clips, in the same manner it makes separate clips for DV.

My Pinnacle "Studio DV," which I got WITH Capture Card and Cable for $75.00, could do analogue scene "separation." Unfortunately, although it appeared to be separate clips, it was really one HUGE hour long file with "logical" markers which made it LOOK like separate scenes. NOT the same, and had SERIOUS drawbacks.

Dumped that program when I learned a few things, but the card and cable, which would cost about the same price as the whole schmeer in CompUSA (That great Mexican owned company), work great with VV3c.

Please, PLEASE, Please, SF, DON'T do it THAT way. (The Pinnacle way.)