have 60g hard drive but will only capture 18minutes of footage

tadleff wrote on 2/25/2001, 1:38 PM
i have factory installed on c: drive which has 15 gigs free
and i'm trying to capture 45min of video via fire wire to
my d: drive which has 60 gigs free
it captures at 400mb per minute which is plenty of space
but when i open the capture window it says i only have 18
minutes of capturing space available
maybe i'm doing something wrong in the set up of the
capture , i'm not sure
looking for answers
thanx
todd

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Martyn_Williams wrote on 2/25/2001, 10:30 PM
I have a system with two drives (ATA100) C: 30G and D: 45G.

All video files are stored on D: which has 22G free. Video
Factory tells me I have 40:52:50 recording duration
remaining.

Based on these figures, I'd say that you should look at
your filesystem. My figures may be influenced by the fact
that I'm rendering my project in PAL DV.

Intel PIII 866 MHZ
Windows ME
IBM HDD 30G 45G
Maxtor 1394 PCI
256 Mb RAM


Hope you work it out

Regards

Martyn


jrsunshine wrote on 2/26/2001, 8:26 AM
Windows ME and any other non-NT windows version have file
size limitations of around 2 GB. 18 minutes of DV is around
that file size (I think). Search this and the VEGAS forum
for any posts related to file size limits (also look for
posts with 2 GB) and they should give you more complete
answers.

REH
patrickm wrote on 2/26/2001, 2:15 PM
i'm not sure this is relevant to your problem or the sonic
foundry capture program (i use VF, but i don't use it much
for captures), but if you're sure you're not hitting your
filesize limit, you may be hitting a frame limit of 32,768.
i know the older ATI software has this limitation, and
32768 @ 29.97fps is 18:13. most newer software doesn't have
this problem (i wouldn't expect SF's to, but if you're using
something else that could be the culprit)
Martyn_Williams wrote on 2/26/2001, 11:07 PM
No this is not the case. I have Windows ME FAT32, and I can
capture up to 4GB files.

It would be better if VideoFactory could write to tape
directly from the timeline, this way you could remove the
4GB limit.

In most cases it's academic as most of the movies I have
produced fade to black on major scene changes. Its very
easy to add standard fade in and fade out transitions which
appears seamless when you print to tape one after another.