Clip captures wrong

boomhower wrote on 1/8/2005, 2:21 PM
Testing out the new 170, I set up my daughters Dora figures and did a brief stop animation cut recording (films 6 frames at a time). Plays fine on the playback deck but when I tried to capture it to V5 I rcvd an error saying it had detected dropped frames. When I try to play the clip in Vegas it plays about 70 frames but it actually only shows one frame frozen. Hope that made sense....

How do you capture specialized clips like that?

Comments

Liam_Vegas wrote on 1/8/2005, 4:00 PM
there should be nothing special you need to do. The 170 is still writing the captured frames onto the tape in the same way it would for anything else. Vegas should capture it as normal.

Have you ever tried to capture anything else recorded on this 170?
DGrob wrote on 1/8/2005, 4:52 PM
Maybe your timecode stamp is driving scene detection craaazie? Try disabling scene detection? Darryl
boomhower wrote on 1/8/2005, 6:14 PM
Liam:

"Have you ever tried to capture anything else recorded on this 170? "

Yes....along with that footage, I also captured some normal footage shot outside. That footage captured fine (during the same capture session).
Liam_Vegas wrote on 1/8/2005, 6:30 PM
I have a PD170... but I have not tried capturing such "stop-animation" type footage. I have capture time-lapse recorded footage (which does a similar thing I think - in that it captures a few frames every x-seconds) - however this process creates a single clip for the entire time-lapsed duration.

I tend to agree with DGrob... as I think it may very well be related to the "scene detection" feature in the Capture process. By default (with scene selection "on") the capture process will create a new clip each time the "record" button is pressed. I could imagine that having to create a new clip every 6 frames will drive the system crazy.. and possibly result in dropped frames. So... try turning off "Scene Detection" in the capture options and re-capture the footage.

Good luck.

-Liam
boomhower wrote on 1/8/2005, 6:48 PM
Just tried again following the advice and IT WORKED....

Thanks guys.....

Give the stop animation a try Liam...it works very nice. I picked up some serious Dad Points with my 4 year old when she saw Dora walking across the playhouse waving and such....

KB
Liam_Vegas wrote on 1/8/2005, 6:58 PM
It would be cool to look at the final video... care to upload to the VegasUsers site?
boomhower wrote on 1/8/2005, 7:19 PM
Sure....give me a few minutes to get it ready.

KB
boomhower wrote on 1/8/2005, 7:44 PM
Sent it over...should be called stopanimationtest (mpg). I've never submitted anything so don't know how long it takes to show up.

Very short and it won't win any awards but as a test of the stop animation ability it worked fine. With more time, lighting and patience one could do some pretty interesting stuff.