WOW! Why Did I Wait So Long...?

Jay Gladwell wrote on 9/27/2006, 6:29 AM

Off and on, I've always had problems capturing video using the built in VidCap in Vegas--dropped frames. I tried everything that was suggested, both in the manual and here in the forum. I still got dropped frames.

On Monday I tried to capture some video that was shot on Saturday. Same ol' story. VidCap gave me 49 dropped frames in the first 15 minutes of capturing. So, I broke down and decided to try ScenalyzerLIVE.

Holy cow! Why did I wait so long? That little app is slick as snot!

It captured the entire video, nearly 45 minutes, without a single dropped frame! The indexing, batch capture, time-lapse, etc., are amazing! This is one app that every video editor should have, regardless of the NLE. It is, without a doubt, the best $39 I have ever spent on editing tools.

It takes a great deal to impress me, but Scenalyzer has truly impresses me!

So the question begs to be asked... Why can't Vegas' VidCap do this?

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craftech wrote on 9/29/2006, 6:29 AM

To put all of this in perspective, we are comparing a software app developed by one person to Video Capture developed by an entire team working for a very large corporation.

John

logiquem wrote on 9/29/2006, 7:04 AM

Some years ago (around 1999-2000) when i started a big, zillion video files educationnal project, i remember everybody telling me that tapeless shooting was impossible to do reliably (the Mac guys also told me that video editing did'nt work on a PC, but that's another story...).

After playing a little with Scenalyser, i quickly realized that it could be much more than a capture tool and could work very well as a live recording tool on a laptop. I use it this way many times a week since 7 years and never experimented problems.

It is so reliable and responsive that you can even quickly rename or delete takes when actually live recording other ones.

Steve Mann wrote on 10/1/2006, 1:24 AM

"I was more than a little upset to find that vidcap only got me one channel of audio! "

To the best of my knowledge, all NLE capture programs get two channels of audio. Scenalyzer seems to be the only program that will capture all four channels in the DV spec.