Capture question...

jrstueve wrote on 5/14/2002, 2:01 PM
Is there a way to limit the capture length to a set time, and then have a new file start up...

For instance if I wanted to archive my source files onto CD-R's can I set up the Capture to Capture 600MB chunks, and then put those onto a CD-R so that I wouldn't have to recapture to reuse?

I can do this with the ATI MMC software, but the capture quality doesn't appear to be as high as the capture's I've made with SF's tool.

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Chienworks wrote on 5/14/2002, 3:02 PM
In Video Capture, Options, Preferences, Disk Management, check Maximum DV clip size and enter the size in Megabytes. The default is just under the 4GB limit allowed by FAT32. You would probably want to enter something like 650.
jrstueve wrote on 5/14/2002, 3:14 PM
cool, thanks CW...

Would it then start a new file, or would I have to start another capture... (with the requisite rewind-find position-start rolling-hit-record-at-just-the-right-time dance, us analog capture folks have to do... :)

Peace.

Chienworks wrote on 5/14/2002, 3:22 PM
It will automatically start a new file. If you name your capture file "baseballgame", then you will have a set of 650MB files named "baseballgame 001.avi", "baseballgame 002.avi", "baseballgame 003.avi", etc. These files can be joined seamlessly on the timeline without missing a single frame.

Note however that if you have scene detection enabled, then each scene change will also start a new file and the previous file may be less than the maximum size you've set.
jrstueve wrote on 5/16/2002, 8:19 AM
Okay I tried it... didn't work...

scene change only works for DV capture...

I'm using an old analog device, and the file size parameters doesn't make any difference, I still end up with files >650MB.

Any help?
Chienworks wrote on 5/16/2002, 11:24 AM
Arrrrrrrg. Sorry about that :(

I do my analog captures with an external analog -> DV converter box, so the capture program sees DV coming in through the firewire port. I guess i haven't tried that size thingie with an analog capture card.
jrstueve wrote on 5/16/2002, 4:00 PM
All I want for Christmas is an ADVC-100 :)