Capture Video HELP

thebrain900 wrote on 6/18/2008, 2:04 PM

I am useing Movie Studio 8.0 and I need some help with understanding one of the settings??

When I am in Movie Studio and I go to FILE then CAPTURE VIDEO the Capture Video Window opens.

At the top of this window I go to OPTIONS then PREFERANCES and the window that opens now I can create a folder for my Captured Clips to go in.

All the way at the bottom of this window there is a check box that says MAX SIZE PER DV CLIP in MB.

I think I get this when I start to capture a video it will only capture it till it gets to be that size in MB am I right??

Now the next check box under that says OVER FLOW WHEN DISK SPACE IS BELOW 360 MB. I did not put 360 MB in here but does that meen that when the Hard Disk that I am capturing the video clip to if the free space goes below 360 MB it will over flow the Video Clip but ware will it be over flowed to?

Please tell me what both Qs I have listed are for thanks Robert

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Terry Esslinger wrote on 6/18/2008, 2:29 PM

From the ? Help files:

Overflow When Disk Space Below (MB)

Specifies the point at which a capture location is considered full and when Video Capture begins capturing to the next destination.

Maximum Size per DV Clip

Enter a file size if you want Video Capture to segment your captured file and create multiple clips when it reaches this size.

You go under preferences-disc management to set up a secondary capture folder.

Chienworks wrote on 6/18/2008, 2:46 PM

First of all, if you have lots of available disk space then you probably don't need to worry about either of these options. Leave them both unchecked and VidCap will continue capturing the entire video in a single file (or split at scene changes), which is probably what you want to have happen.

You are correct about the maximum file size setting.

As far as overflow, you can add multiple capture folders. When the drive for the first listed active folder is filled VidCap will search down the list of folders you've added to find the next one that is on a different drive, then start capturing there.