I know many have raised this before. It's never bugged me because either I don't shoot HD to tape or when I do I'm fanatical about tapes and kit. Now I have to deal with many hours of tapes I didn't shoot and didn't get to coach the client before he set off on his numerous trips.
Probably the problem here is in part due to using whatever tape was on hand and general camera abuse. The client is a nice old director of some considerable standing from years ago, probably this is the first time he's used a camera himself.
So what I'd really like to know is why Vegas 8.0b splits tapes into clips when I specifically asked it not to. Splitting right in the middle of an interview is a bit of a problem given that I've got a few frames of mangled vision and lost a couple of frames of audio. Almost none of the splits are between shots, strange. For what it's worth Vegas reported no dropped frames during the capture.
Now just to be clear given the current tone of some threads, I'm not asking or demanding anything be fixed. I'm not angry or annoyed by this. For other reasons I might give this whole project the flick anyway. What I would like to be able to do is tell the client how he can avoid this happening in the future.
Now I know some are going to say I should use some other piece of code to capture HDV. I don't entirely buy this. From my experience playing out tapes from DAT to UMatic the second time you play them will almost always be better than the first. Simply running tape over heads can clear problems on the tape itself.
Bob.
Probably the problem here is in part due to using whatever tape was on hand and general camera abuse. The client is a nice old director of some considerable standing from years ago, probably this is the first time he's used a camera himself.
So what I'd really like to know is why Vegas 8.0b splits tapes into clips when I specifically asked it not to. Splitting right in the middle of an interview is a bit of a problem given that I've got a few frames of mangled vision and lost a couple of frames of audio. Almost none of the splits are between shots, strange. For what it's worth Vegas reported no dropped frames during the capture.
Now just to be clear given the current tone of some threads, I'm not asking or demanding anything be fixed. I'm not angry or annoyed by this. For other reasons I might give this whole project the flick anyway. What I would like to be able to do is tell the client how he can avoid this happening in the future.
Now I know some are going to say I should use some other piece of code to capture HDV. I don't entirely buy this. From my experience playing out tapes from DAT to UMatic the second time you play them will almost always be better than the first. Simply running tape over heads can clear problems on the tape itself.
Bob.