vv3 dv capture

nanjil wrote on 12/27/2001, 1:49 PM

here is a wish list I posted in
rec.video.desktop

I just started using vv3. used teh capture facility to capture an entire dv tape. It dropped 32 frames.

Won't it be nice if it had an automatic facility where the software goes back and recaptures the dropped frames? shouldn't be too difficult to do.

Comments

Paradox wrote on 12/27/2001, 5:29 PM

It's not quite that simple -- unless you want to recapture an entire clip. Video works best when it is captured onto the hard disk in a linear fashion, each byte being laid down in sequence. That's why fragmented disks are such a menace -- to read the drive, the head has to jump around -- causing lost frames on playback.

Perhaps as seek times on drives get faster it won't be so problematic.

deef wrote on 12/27/2001, 8:23 PM

Actually, this exact thing happened to me today...and I did what we intended the software to be able to do:

Note to see which clip dropped frames switch the clip explorer to details view and then click on the Views button and choose Customize View and you can then add the drop frame count column and put it in the column list.

Simply mark the clip for batch capture that has dropped frames, and then choose Batch Capture.