Capture problem - hundreds of 9 second clips

MarkCambridgeEngland wrote on 7/14/2006, 11:37 PM

I am new to video editing and this is a steep learning curve for me. I have transfered my digital video (2 1/2 hrs worth) to my Sony Vaio PC using the capture software in the Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 6.0 software. The problem is it has divided the tapes into over 800 very short video clips. Most are 9 seconds long - and a few are 1, 2 or 4 seconds long. Ive made no changes to defauly settings - apart from telling software to capture in PAL.

When I tried to play the video clips back (.avi format) some of them have slightly distorted sound at the begining - i.e. the sound speeds up and returns to normal - lasting perhaps just 1 second.

Please can someone help me resolve this - I cant find info in the instructions for capturing software.

Thanks

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Spot|DSE wrote on 7/15/2006, 8:46 AM

Software would capture PAL regardless of what you told it.
This would suggest a head problem, so I'd recommend turning off scene detection in the Capture preferences.
Overall, it sounds like your camera might have some issues.

Lastly, you'll probably get more answers in the Vegas Movie Studio forum.

MarkCambridgeEngland wrote on 7/18/2006, 10:52 AM

Thanks - I appreciate your help! Strangely I tried captureing again - having made no changes to prefs and this time captured all 3/12 hrs in around 30 scenes!

Thanks
Mark