Dropped frames message, but none listed...

Jessariah67 wrote on 6/7/2002, 4:11 PM

I just dumped an hour onto my hard drive and there were no dropped frames counted in the timer, but I got a message that there were dropped frames. What does that mean?

Also, the video was divided up into 2:56:25 segments, so the hour (which had about 5 breaks all together) waws captured in 26 clips. I can put consecutive clips together without any skip, but I was wondering why it did such short segments.

Thanks

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HeeHee wrote on 6/7/2002, 4:23 PM

You probably have scene detection enabled. Not at my video editing system, so I don't recall the exact location in Vid Cap to go to change this.

Jessariah67 wrote on 6/7/2002, 4:38 PM

Okay, I do have scen detection enabled, and I also had the clip max set at 640MB. I changed it to 2G.

Still don't know wabout the dropped frames. I used Advanced Capture with regions a few weeks ago and had the same message, though I didn't have any "dropped" frames in the clips.

HeeHee wrote on 6/7/2002, 4:40 PM

Not sure what to tell you about the dropped frames. Did you try the capture again? Maybe it was just a glitch.

Jessariah67 wrote on 6/7/2002, 4:43 PM

Point is, I'm looking at the clips and there doesn't seem to be any dropped frames. Maybe it just detects something, but it isn't real.

Caruso wrote on 6/7/2002, 6:29 PM

How numerous are the dropped frames, and, at what point during capture do they occur? If I've re-used an analog 8mm tape in my DV8 (recorded over the analog with digital material), and there is analog footage at the end of the tape, VV will pick this up and report dropped frames.

The digital footage is fine, however.

Just a thought.

Caruso

deef wrote on 6/8/2002, 11:08 PM

Below are the 3.0b readme changes, the second item is the dropped frames fix.

-Improved support for DV media converters when the Enable DV device control check box on the General Preferences tab is cleared.
-Improved DV dropped frame count detection so that bad timecode will not incorrectly cause "phantom" dropped frames.
-A bug that caused DV 48 KHz audio to be detected as 32 KHz has been fixed.

PeterWright wrote on 6/9/2002, 5:50 AM

You can import a Vegas captured clip into Premiere, if you have it, and check to see if in fact any frames have been dropped.

deef wrote on 6/9/2002, 9:30 AM

This shouldn't be necessary, as 3.0b should have improved dropped frame detection.