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Chienworks wrote on 5/28/2003, 8:09 AM
What sort of tape are you capturing? VidCap only breaks up scenes where there is DV timecode discontinuity (ie. stopping and restarting your DV camcorder). If you are capturing analog, even through an A/V -> DV converter, then there won't be any timecode interruptions. Some DV camcorders also keep continuous timecode through scene breaks if you only pause and start recording again before the mechanism "times out" and dethreads the tape.
FuTz wrote on 5/28/2003, 8:16 AM

The most bizarre is that I always captured with this same cam and it always worked!
I got the DSR PD-100 from Sony, record on DV (miniDV) tape.
I don't know what could have changed...V4 has also difficulty "finding" my cam when I capture, which wasn't with VV3. But I switched from Win2k to XP and there's been a few things like this too...
jetdv wrote on 5/28/2003, 8:45 AM
Was the clock set on the camera that recorded this tape? If the clock is not set, scene detection will not work. Scene detection is based on jumps in Date/Time.
FuTz wrote on 5/28/2003, 9:12 AM

Now jetdv, you're making some point: I did (for the first time) a "reset" on my cam last month and haven't captured since... the clock probably got reset too. I'm gonna check it up!
FuTz wrote on 5/28/2003, 10:04 AM


Mmmm...
I set the clock again on the cam and tried capturing another tape: 2 clips. One around 2mins, the other around 38 mins... That didn't work. Could this be because it's got no "reeference" anymore with the tape itself? I do NOT use *memory* tapes ...

jetdv wrote on 5/28/2003, 10:45 AM
Tapes recorded with the clock NOT set will never work for scene capture. Any NEW tapes you record should now work since the clock is now set.
FuTz wrote on 5/28/2003, 12:39 PM
That's what I just figured out.
Happy me.
Gonna use a LOT this Trimmer window now to make lenght-decent clips to choose from :)

Once again, I learned something smacking my nose against some wall, lol !

Thanks for pointing me out; I would have searched a solution for days, if not weeks !!!