Scene Detection??

Caruso wrote on 5/23/2004, 3:48 PM

I have two forty-minute video tapes I want to capture - each tape as one avi file. I'm using vidcap5 capturing via Digi8 camcorder to a 160 gb ntsc internal drive. Files keep getting split three or four times each. Each time I start vidcap I disable scene detection - so what is going on?

Thanks.

Caruso

Comments

Jameson_Prod wrote on 5/23/2004, 5:42 PM

What OS are you using? It may be a limitation of the OS rather than a problem with Vegas. Are all the file sizes the same after the split?

johnmeyer wrote on 5/23/2004, 5:48 PM

Make sure "Maximum capture length" (Options -> Preferences -> Capture tab) is NOT checked. Also, in the same dialog, go to the "Disk Management" tab and make sure that "Maximum size per DV clip" is not checked.

Caruso wrote on 5/23/2004, 11:20 PM

I'm running WinXPPro. Maximum file length is not checked, and, curious enough, clips are about 18:47 each (suspiciously similar to the fat file system limitation).

Under disk management, the maximum size per dv clip is not checked (there is a greyed out entry in the box, 640 MB - how'd that get there and who would ever want such a limitation (just curious).

So, what's going on here and how do I fix it?

Thanks again. Oh, I suppose I should add that I'm not new to Vegas - only Vegas 5 - been using V4 and VV3/VV2 prior - things had been working properly before - never encountered this problem previously.

Caruso

farss wrote on 5/24/2004, 2:56 AM

Unless I'm mistaken you can still run XP on a FAT32 drive. I've captured clips longer than 18:47 in V5, well hang on VidCap hasn't changed anyway, so it cannot be a difference between V4 and V5.

AlanC wrote on 5/24/2004, 3:35 AM

I fell into the NTSC/FAT32 trap with my new machine. It came with Win XP and NTSC disk.

I pulled my 160gb video capture disk out of my old Win 98 machine and plugged it into the new machine as drive D:

Win XP didn't object and it took me a while to realise that I was still running in FAT32.

delta22552 wrote on 5/24/2004, 5:56 AM

you mean NTFS? NTSC is the TV standart for the US and outlying area.....

AlanC wrote on 5/24/2004, 6:40 AM

NTSC - NTFS
I blame it on Caruso, it was he who put me on the wrong TRACK

Some PAL he turned out to be ;~)

daryl wrote on 5/24/2004, 9:35 AM

Maybe he got one of those Microsoft expeimental systems, when they were trying to combine multiple archetictures, NTSCSI? Sorry, couldn't help it.

johnmeyer wrote on 5/24/2004, 10:48 AM

Yep, you've got a FAT32 drive you are capturing to. Open Windows Explorer and right click on the drive letter of the drive you are capturing to. Click on Properties. It will tell you whether the drive is NTFS (New Technology File System) or FAT32 (File Allocation Table 32-bit).

Caruso wrote on 5/24/2004, 3:17 PM

I am so embarassed! Too bad none of you bet me money - cause I would have sworn on ten bible stacks that none of my externals were FAT32 - and, looking at those file sizes, I knew they were running right around the size of the FAT32 cutoff - and, now, I wasn't drinking yesterday (only 'cause I was too busy (lazy) to go to the store (or check the file system on drive 'J').

It's all your fault!!!! (don't know who 'your' is, but I have to blame someone (other than me!!).

Yup, problem solved - question should never have been asked. Must have been a senior moment.

Now I lay me down - to be kicked in the @ss!.

Take your best shot.

Caruso