Not very OT: SC Live lies about disk being full

earthrisers wrote on 2/1/2009, 1:18 PM

A new one on us... we've used SCLive for a long time, to capture video to disk in real time, at indoor shoots. The other night, when we started the gig, SCLive said it had stopped capturing because the disk was full (this was before capturing ANYthing... immediately upon clicking "Capture").

In fact, the disk had more than 200Gigs available. We tried it with a couple of different external drives (which used to work), and even with the laptop's own internal C drive. SCLive claimed they were all full. Not true.

Has anyone else encountered this, and, hopefully, successfully diagnosed and solved it?

PS: At that particular gig, we fired up Vegas, and captured to disk through its built-in capture utility. Which proved beyond doubt that it wasn't really a matter of a disk being full...

Comments

logiquem wrote on 2/2/2009, 7:36 AM

I remember having this warning once when Dv device control was enabled (wich is a bad idea in a live capture context).

Otherwise, zillion of successfull capture sessions...

johnmeyer wrote on 2/2/2009, 8:56 AM

I vaguely remember this from 5-6 years ago. Check, in SCLive, all your alternate capture folders and temporary folders.

Edit -> Change Path

Also, check the "Alternate Capture Folder (when main disk is full)" setting in the File -> Options -> Folder Settings tab. Make sure it specifies a valid folder.

A little-known trick that might be useful is to open the main SCLive Option menu (File->Options), click on the "All Settings" tab, and scroll all the way to the top. Right click on the branch heading at the very top where it says "All Settings" (right above the lower branch heading of "Capture Settings"). One of the options is "Reset item/branch to default." Click on this and it should reset any setting in SCLive that might be causing the problem.