First HDV Capture - M2T file Question

rtbond wrote on 4/28/2007, 8:43 AM
Folks,

I'm just starting to mess around with HDV (Sony HDR-HC1 camera) editing in Vegas v7. When using the internal capture utility (scene detection **OFF**) the capture produce four files, where based on my DV (AVI) experience I expected only one file.

Is there a file size limit for m2t files that is forcing the capture utility to generate four m2t files? (of sizes 233, 1378, 3460, and 6883 MB).

Also, the capture utility is a bit funky. When it completes capturing the tape it shows in the preview windows that the tape has stopped (as expected), but apparently you need to press the stop button in the capture utility window to force the application to close the m2t files written to the HDD (otherwise the files have temporary names, hitting stop results in the file name changing to match the clip name you specified in the capture utility). This seems odd from a human factors perspective (i.e., not intuitive at all).

Thanks!

--Rob

Rob Bond

My System Info:

  • Vegas Pro 22 Build 194
  • OS: Windows 11.0 Home (64-bit), Version: 10.0.26100 Build 26100
  • Processor: i9-10940X CPU @ 3.30GHz (14 core)
  • Physical memory: 64GB (Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB (2 x 32GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz C16 memory kit)
  • Motherboard Model: MSI x299 Creator (MS-7B96)
  • GPU: EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER XC ULTRA (Studio Driver Version =  536.40)
  • Storage: Dual Samsung 970 EVO 1TB SSD (boot and Render); WDC WD4004FZWX, 7200 RPM (media)
  • Primary Display: Dell UltraSharp 27, U2723QE, 4K monitor with 98% DCI-P3 and DisplayHDR 400 with Dell Display Manager
  • Secondary Display: LG 32UK550-B, entry-level 4k/HDR-10 level monitor, @95% DCI-P3 coverage

Comments

riredale wrote on 4/28/2007, 10:07 AM
I know very little about the Vegas HDV capture utility, because I'm hooked on a freeware alternative called HDVsplit, currently up to version .77 (I think--I'm on .75).

One of the nice things about this utility is that (a) it can tell you when frames are dropped, and stop the capture, and (b) it can split clips according to date/time and label them with that information. This makes it easy for me to organize.

Perhaps someone else here with VidCap experience can help with your current situation.
Steve Mann wrote on 4/29/2007, 12:23 AM
If you capture again do you get the exact same files?
rtbond wrote on 4/29/2007, 4:24 AM
I will have to try a recapture. I did try HDSplit and it does allow captures as a single file, so this seems to suggest it has nothing to do with a M2T file size limitation.

The breakpoints in the captured video appear to be at major Date/Time code transitions (i.e., scenes shot on different dates).

---Rob

Rob Bond

My System Info:

  • Vegas Pro 22 Build 194
  • OS: Windows 11.0 Home (64-bit), Version: 10.0.26100 Build 26100
  • Processor: i9-10940X CPU @ 3.30GHz (14 core)
  • Physical memory: 64GB (Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB (2 x 32GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz C16 memory kit)
  • Motherboard Model: MSI x299 Creator (MS-7B96)
  • GPU: EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER XC ULTRA (Studio Driver Version =  536.40)
  • Storage: Dual Samsung 970 EVO 1TB SSD (boot and Render); WDC WD4004FZWX, 7200 RPM (media)
  • Primary Display: Dell UltraSharp 27, U2723QE, 4K monitor with 98% DCI-P3 and DisplayHDR 400 with Dell Display Manager
  • Secondary Display: LG 32UK550-B, entry-level 4k/HDR-10 level monitor, @95% DCI-P3 coverage
dhill wrote on 4/29/2007, 1:03 PM
do you have scene detection on? that's what it sounds like to me. Derek