Garbled DV capture

Pullmanite wrote on 12/2/2003, 10:31 AM
A few times recently, when capturing an NTSC tape, at the end of the capture, the report I get back is that the video clip captured without any dropped frames, but at some odd framerate, say like 35fps. When I play the clip back on the timeline, the video is a garbled rainboy blocky mess and the audio is about 25% speed. Any ideas? I can go back and recapture and it often is fine. But it's a pain when I batch capturing a whole 1 hour tape.

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rebel44 wrote on 12/2/2003, 11:31 AM
What capture device you are using?.Did you defrag HD/ Is you OS on some HD what you capture to?.I assume that you capture analog format in mpeg.
Try some avi and see what happen.Should come out even worse because require more disk space and comoputation.
Pullmanite wrote on 12/3/2003, 8:59 AM
I'm capturing DV AVI. The hard drive was actually wiped clean for a fresh capture using WinXP SP1 as the OS.

This has been a looming question for me. I understand that Vegas uses its own proprietary codec for DV. But the only option I see for capture is the Microsoft DV VCR. In the options, I have "ignore third-party codecs" on and "use Microsoft DV codec" off. Am I correct in assuming that I am using the Vegas codec?

I've used two different miniDV camcorders, two different tapes, two different FireWire cables and get the same thing. Capture looks fine while I'm capturing, Vegas Capture reports no frames lost, but then the image sometimes is at a really weird framerate and has small rainbow and large grey blocks all over it... and the audio plays back at a low rate.

It didn't start happening until I "upgraded" to 4.0e. I'll dump it and go back to 4.0d and see if that fixes it. I was just wondering if anyone else came across this problem.
chrishug wrote on 12/30/2003, 3:21 PM
I too had this problem over the last day or two. It turned out to be a bad tape that I was capturing from. Only the first minute or two was bad so if I skipped past this area the capture worked great. When I changed to a different tape the problems went away completely.