Capture splits in multiple files

eman wrote on 7/4/2004, 2:07 PM
I have a problem with Vegas 4. I capture movies with Enable Scene Detection OFF and at the end of the capture, the avi is split into two or three parts. This seems to happen randomly and has recently been happening to all my capture (never happened before). I checked and there were no dropped frames during the capture and the camcorder seems to be working fine.

Can anybody provide some insight as to why this could be happening ? Is it a faulty firewire cable? Camera issue? Vegas Setting? Hard drive problem?

Comments

GaryKleiner wrote on 7/4/2004, 2:23 PM
Most likely it's a discontinuity in the timecode.

Gary
eman wrote on 7/4/2004, 2:50 PM
Interesting..
would this mean it's a problem with the tape or the source camera or maybe a dirty head on the capture camera? Would vegas STILL split the file on a timecode change despite the fact that Scene Detection is disabled?

thanks
eman wrote on 7/4/2004, 3:37 PM
upon careful insepection in Vegas, I noticed that the first part would end at say 00:00:24:00 and then the next video which the VidCap split would start at 00:00:24:04 (so it's not starting at 00:00:00:00). In couple other videos that had the same random split problem, the same thign occurs... the difference between the end timecode and the start timecode of the next part is this :04

Any thoughts?
rmack350 wrote on 7/4/2004, 8:34 PM
I normally use scene detection and I don't believe that I ever get 4 second gaps from one clip to the next. It may well be that your camera is somehow inserting a gap in the timecode.

What OS are you using and/or how is the disk formatted? FAT32 or NTFS?

FAT32 has a size limit for files.

Rob Mack
rmack350 wrote on 7/4/2004, 8:42 PM
I normally use scene detection and I don't believe that I ever get 4 second gaps from one clip to the next. It may well be that your camera is somehow inserting a gap in the timecode.

What OS are you using and/or how is the disk formatted? FAT32 or NTFS?

FAT32 has a size limit for files.

Rob Mack
johnmeyer wrote on 7/5/2004, 7:39 AM
Does it split at exactly the same point each time? If not, then you may be dropping frames, and will need to look at DMA, background programs, and the other usual dropped frame suspects.

Are the files exactly 1 Gbyte, 2 Gbytes, or 4 Gbytes? If so, you need to tell the capture program to use the NTFS file system (assuming you are using NT/2000/XP and have the disk set up for NTFS).