New to this, But 2 hours of VHS tape and only got 14 min captured

Hoohah wrote on 2/25/2003, 4:19 PM

I'm a Novice at this but as I was capturing a Video of my VCR all of a sudden the program said it reached it's limitation and I know now, that there are limitations on how much you can record as I am using Windows 98. My question is how can I capture the complete say 2 hours of VHS tape and get it on DVD? Is the easiest thing to do is upgrade to windows XP? Or is there a program I can buy to work around this or even better, A book I can read to get a better Idea of what I'm doing I have a lot of VHS tape I would like to get onto a DVD of my Kids and such. Right now Im just downloading different programs to see what works best, It seems Sonic is the way to go and well worth every penny. I already have a DVD Burner a Sony Dru500A and fast computer with plenty of memory.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

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JJKizak wrote on 2/25/2003, 6:51 PM

I would go to XP and use the NTFS file system them you can go to
I think 13 terabytes of data on your hard drive at one time. Otherwise with FAT 32
file system your stuck with the 2 gig limit. Get rid of 98 crash baby as XP
is much more stable. Your right on one thing, SOFO is the way to go. Also make
sure your preferences (options) the capture duration is set to at least 4 hrs.
anyway so you don't bang up against that limit.

JJK

Chienworks wrote on 2/25/2003, 7:42 PM

Hoohah: you don't mention how you're capturing, what hardware & software you're using. If you're doing some sort of external analog to DV conversion and then capturing through firewire, SonicFoundry's VidCap program will automatically and seamlessly split the capture up into 4GB files for you. These can be butted up against each other on Vegas' timeline and used as if they were all oen file.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/25/2003, 11:39 PM

Also, are you capturing onto your Os drive (probely c:)? Try capturing on to a seperate drive (physically different drive, not just a seperate partition). I haven't used win98 with Vegas yet, but I don't think you'll have a problem, except in the 4 GB file size limit (windows 2000 and XP don't have this problem). If I were you though, I'd capture everything into shorter "scenes". Then you could edit the clips eaiser because you'd already have them broken up.

Caruso wrote on 2/26/2003, 12:54 AM

FWIW, I use a Win98SE/WinXPPro dual boot setup because I still have a few programs that I need that run on 98 but not XP. For that reason, one of my external drives is still formatted using FAT32. Vegas seems not to care at all whether I direct long DV captures to NTFS or FAT32, because, as previous posters have mentioned, it will automatically cut captures exceeding the limit into multiple files that play back seamlessly.

I think that the ability to split large captures was a feature that came with VV30. If you're being stopped at the limit, what version of Vegas/VegasVideo are you running?

If you have 3.0 or later, then, I would look to some other factor as the cause of your problem.

I second the endorsement of your opinion that Vegas is the way to go.

WAY TO GO VEGAS!!

Good luck, and have fun.

Caruso

TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/26/2003, 7:35 AM

I took a look at the Vegas 3 (and 4) preferences, and make sure that you DO NOT have the "strictly follow AVI2 specs" checked. That tells Vegas to make 1 big AVI instead of several 2gig ones. If you're using some other software to capture your video, it could be called infinite capture too (it is on the matrox at work).