In the capture program, go to Options - Preferences and click on the Disk Management tab.

UNCHECK the box that says "Maximum DV Clip Size"

Also, go to the Capture tab and:

UNCHECK the minimum checkbox
UNCHECK the maximum checkbox

Thanks, I'll try it...

I think gnfoster is correct on this one. I unchecked all those things and still got the cut off at 10:03 minutes. I checked the properties and it was slightly over 4 GB. Wow, I didnt know that 10 minutes of tape would be 4 gigs! It says it was uncompressed and it was an .avi. I guess thats why it was such a large file. I used the Huffyuv codec in the video device section. What should I use to get a decent picture but not such a huge file? There are a lot of choices in there.
What setting do I use to get a compressed .avi file? Is .avi the best to use. I read it was. I thought I had this licked but I guess I was wrong. Thanks for the help and thanks for more info which I crave!
Chris

best, trouble-free setup you can get for the money is Win2k/XP with a 1394 adapter ($35) with either:

- DV camcorder WITH PASSTHROUGH CAPABILITY
or
- Analog to DV / DV to Analog converter (canopus makes one for $289)
or
- DV Deck

you will be capturing at DV quality which is about 250MB/minute or 9 minutes per 4GB. Vegas Capture will roll over to a new file automatically when you hit the 4GB limit thereby defeating the limit (if you are working on a FAT32 formatted drive. NTFS has no such limit)

drives are cheap (almost down to $1 a gigabyte). it's not worth trying to save space by using inferior video compression formats.

The 4 Gig limit would be 18 minutes. 9 minutes is about 2 gig. I suggested the other answer since he stated 10 minutes. However, I never render uncompressed - only as DV (on an NTFS drive).

I've been using the freeware program Virtualdub (www.virtualdub.org I think...) for capturing from my analog Studio PCTV Pro card. It has an option for multisegment capturing where once a file hits a certain size it will start a new cap file. I've only used multisegment a few times since I've put in a newer HD, but it seems to work pretty well. I was able to capture an 1.2-hour little league game in about seven 2GB files (using one of Pinnacle's codecs), then take them into Vegas to string them all together again pretty quickly and then render them into VCD.

You're right. I forgot about the roll over to a new file. I only had that happen once or twice. Good point.....

>>>The 4 Gig limit would be 18 minutes. 9 minutes is about 2 gig. I suggested the other answer since he stated 10 minutes. However, I never render uncompressed - only as DV (on an NTFS drive).

oops, yup 18 mins. good points. I guess DV is the inferior compression format compared to uncompressed.

If your system limit is 2Gb, all you have to do is enter this in the Capture options - 2048Mb, and Vegas will capture seamless sequential clips for you.

Hey thanks guys! Where can I put that 2048 MB in capture properties? Under the "Disk Management" tab? So when I do this, it will capture continously but make dieeferent clips kinda like VirtualDub?
Thanks for the info.
Chris