Anyone help with possible HDV capture problem?

Terry Esslinger wrote on 4/15/2008, 11:47 AM

I captured a one hour HDV 1080i tape via Vegas7d. It was one long clip (a stage play) and the camera was never stopped. But it captured in 4 separate files, some short and some long. I had scene detection turned off, which shouldn't have made any difference since it was one long scene anyway. There was a short missing segment at each capture break. Should I somehow break the capture up intop smaller segments? And how? It is possible that dropouts occurred at the capture break points. Would this cause this kind of problem at capture?

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fldave wrote on 4/15/2008, 11:53 AM
Are the file sizes similar on the first three files?

Thinking FAT32 vs NTFS issue. Not sure if there is an option on maximum file size somewhere in the settings.
Terry Esslinger wrote on 4/15/2008, 12:00 PM
fldave,
Actually all four pieces are different in size.
The FAT32 NTFS thing was the first thing I thought of also. All drives are NTSF
Thanks for the reply.
nolonemo wrote on 4/15/2008, 12:07 PM
Terry, I am having the same problem with a Canon HV20 (long take split on capture). I would suggest the following (which I am going to try):

Note the time of the break on the timeline.
Try capturing again - same break in same place? If not, sounds like capture glitch.
Playback video from camera - any video/audio glitch at that time? If so, could be dropout on tape.
Try capturing with other program - HDVSplit. Same thing happening? If so, could be dropout on tape, if not, likely a capture problem.

Terry Esslinger wrote on 4/15/2008, 12:16 PM
nolonemo,
Thanks for the reply. I will try those suggestions when I get home tonight. I have a feeling that it is the dropout on tape thing. I seem to remember thatwhen I watched the tape in the camera that I noticed a 'frozen frame' for a short period of time at the spot of the first break. Having never noticed or seen dropouts before I didn't know what had caused it. I was using a standard Sony miniDV tape. I'll check and see if the other spots have the same thing.
nolonemo wrote on 4/15/2008, 7:02 PM
Terry, I checked the tape playback and there was no dropout on the TV, so I recaptured and this time, I got the whole 40 min take in one clip. Go figure.
fldave wrote on 4/15/2008, 7:41 PM
Then you should probably consider additional activity on your computer when capturing may be causing issues with the capture. Things like antivirus, watching web videos, other background activities can create issues with video capture processing.

Glad it worked this time.
nolonemo wrote on 4/15/2008, 9:19 PM
Yeah, I just re-captured another 50 minute take without a break which had split in two before. The wierd thing is that I usually reboot before capturing and turn off AV, firewall, wireless, etc., and have always captured SD with no dropped frames, too.