Capture Time

ilsb wrote on 9/16/2003, 11:24 AM

What is the maximum tape capture time for V4? I used 2 cams to cover an Ironman event recently. When I captured from each cam I got 24 minutes of material from both. They both use 60 min DV tapes. Seems like too much of a coincidence that both ended at 24 minutes. Nothing seems to be lost and capture was normal. Should I get 60 minutes of capture for a full 60 minutes of tape time?

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jetdv wrote on 9/16/2003, 11:30 AM

I can get 83 minutes using an 83 minute tape. I've done 2 hours when capturing from VHS (through the deck). So, time is not a limiting factor. Can we get some more details? How are you capturing (analog or firewire). How BIG are the files captured? (around 4 Gig?)

Jsnkc wrote on 9/16/2003, 11:41 AM

Yep, you're reaching the 4 gig file limit size set forth by the FAT 32 formatting of your hard drive. Switch to NTFS and you should be fine.

Chienworks wrote on 9/16/2003, 12:09 PM

If you recorded each tape for 60 minutes and got 24 minutes of material, how is nothing missing? Do you mean that the files you captured play for the full 60 minutes but only too 24 minutes to transfer from the tape to hard drive? Or do you mean that you only got 24 minutes worth of material but that 24 minutes is intact?

If you are capturing DV under FAT32 then the 4GB cutoff point comes at about 18.7 minutes or so, not 24 minutes. However, even if this is the case then there will be additional captured files automatically saved for each additional 4GB. These files will be the same name as the first file, but with 001, 002, 003, etc. appended.