Phantom frame in long capture

sdk wrote on 1/2/2002, 10:28 AM
In VV3, I captured a 55 minute D8 tape, including an uninterrupted 50 minute take, requiring about 12 gigs. The capture went well, and the ciip of that long take was split into 3 clips (let's call them A, B and C). When I placed them on the timeline, I noticed a flash at the end of B. Upon closer inspection, it was a single frame from either the beginning of B or the end of A. I zoomed the timeline to individual frames, and it did not appear as a separate frame. I couldn't delete that last frame, as it was part of a continuous motion. After much puzzling over it, I gave up and proceeded. The resultant video, printed to tape and also encoded on a VCD (BTW, the render to VCD took about 3 hours for the 55 minutes.) has an almost unnoticeable (except to me!) flash, the motion and sound remain fluid, though, and I am still baffled. What happened? How can it be avoided in capturing such long takes? How can such a phantom frame (perhaps it is only a half scan of a frame?) be removed?

Any thoughts?

Win ME, PIII 1 gig, 256 mb drive, 7200 60 gig drive

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 1/2/2002, 12:52 PM
Edit out the garbage frame?
sdk wrote on 1/2/2002, 2:30 PM
I wanted to maintain the integrity of the movement and the sync of the soundtrack, so I left the glitch in. I am curious as to how it happened and how to make sure it doesn't happen again. As I indicated before, looking at the individual frame level, depending on how I scrolled through the timeline, I saw either what should be there or the 'phantom' from 8 minutes earlier, both clear images. How could they both exist on the same frame?
SonyEPM wrote on 1/2/2002, 2:49 PM
To ensure that this never happens again, your best bet is to capture to NTFS drives under Win2k or WinXP. This will allow you to capture one continuous file from your Digital 8 camera, no segmenting.

We have not seen this problem with DV captures, so it could be D8 specific. We don't test with D8 cameras (although a few developers here do use them at home and have not reported this particualr problem).
SonyEPM wrote on 1/2/2002, 2:49 PM
To ensure that this never happens again, your best bet is to capture to NTFS drives under Win2k or WinXP. This will allow you to capture one continuous file from your Digital 8 camera, no segmenting.

We have not seen this problem with DV captures, so it could be D8 specific. We don't test with D8 cameras (although a few developers here do use them at home and have not reported this particular problem).