Terrible Capture

ZAN wrote on 7/13/2021, 10:31 AM

I am a newbie, on my first project, which is to capture video from a DV Tape. I set everything up and all seemed to go well. When the 30 minute tape finished, I find to my horror that Vegas has dumped 60 AVI files on my hard disk, all being short clips of the 30 minute movie. This is ridiculous, when I was expecting a single file. I can do post-edits and joins with maybe one or two files, but not 60!! Also, I need MPG, not AVI. What has gone wrong? Are there some settings that I should tweak?

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j-v wrote on 7/13/2021, 11:13 AM

........ my first project, which is to capture video from a DV Tape.

What kind of file are you capturing DV(Avi files)

or HDV files from that tape.

Which capture app are you using and what how did you do the settings

ZAN wrote on 7/13/2021, 11:24 AM

Thanks for your response.

The Capture app offered a "choice" of DV and HDV, but selecting "HDV" did not work, so I stayed with DV. So, I am using "DV" module to capture from DV tape. The app is "Default Vegas Capture".

As I am unfamiliar with this software, I left all settings at default. However, I read a post which said I should select "Capture Tape" NOT "Capture video". Another post said I should deselect "Scene Detection". So I am going to have another try tomorrow with these two settings. Any further advice is welcome.

Former user wrote on 7/13/2021, 12:02 PM

You will still get an AVI file. Vegas doesn't capture directly to MPG. You have to render your project to MPG after you have edited and applied any effx that you want.

Musicvid wrote on 7/13/2021, 1:25 PM

Turn off Scene Detection during capture.

Since you have been successful otherwise, that's all you need to do ...

ZAN wrote on 7/13/2021, 1:33 PM

Thank you all for your advice. I intend to have another shot tomorrow. with Capture Tape ON and Scene detection OFF. And then put the AVI file into the Editor and render finally in MPG. Hopefully that will resolve everything.

Just for context, I have used other video editors before, but none else comes with Scene Detection switched on by default - usually you have to ask for it. Also, I have never encountered this "Capture Tape" vs "Capture Video" nuance - I thought I was capturing video on tape! I guess every app has its quirk. :-) Thanks, once again.