SOT: Wierd Capture Glitch.

farss wrote on 8/30/2006, 5:32 AM

I've captured 1000s of hours of video and this is the first time I've had this happen. One clip was captured with the field order around the wrong way. I never picked the problem until copies were run off the DVD and sent out to clients, thankfully not too many copies!
And of course unless they view it on a CRT they'll never notice either which is why I didn't pick it up either.
I doubt this is a Vegas or a VidCap problem, this tape I remember had a really bad glitch right at the start of the offending clip, VidCap reported 150 dropped frames in the first few seconds and then all was well for the nest 2 hours of tape, could have been a brief head clog, whatever. I didn't worry about it as I was going to trim the clip anyway. Probably all that static confounded VidCap until the next clip was captured when the field order was reset.

Moral to this story, always have a CRT hooked up for checking, and by that I mean checking EVERYTHING.

Bob.

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 8/30/2006, 9:33 AM

FYI, as long as you render the mpeg for hte DVD in the swithed field order, it's not a problem. My ATI AIW captures the fields opposite in NTSC mode for some reason. As long as it's not mixed with the correct field order footage, it's no problem.

farss wrote on 8/31/2006, 6:11 AM

Here's a rather funny postscript to this.
Someone who'd bought a copy of this DVD rang up today to complain, didn't see anything wrong with the first half (that's the bit with the field order reversed and all the footballers looking like butterflies on speed) but said there was something wrong with the second half, it was playing at half speed!

Well I suppose if you thought the first half was OK, then the second half would look kind of slow.

Bob.