Time length for capturing

swannies1983 · Post by **swannies1983** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:44 pm

Hi people. Am new to this forum and can't be bothered doing a large scale search for an answer to my question.

I have Ulead Video Studio 8 and am in the process of converting some NASCAR races to DVD from VHS. As these races ae quite long, I just set up the VHS, start capturing, keep an eye on it and then stop the capture when it's done. However, the other night i thought i would let the capture go whilst I was asleep. The capture kept going well after the race had finished (and the tape had got to the end and rewound itself) and as a result, I run out of disk space.

The question is, is there some option where i can chose a capture length? I know the VHS only goes for 5 hours so can I put capture length of 5 hours somewhere? Therefore, the capture will stop at a predetermined time, no matter how long my VHS tape goes for.

Are there any programs which have this option if Video Studio doesn't have it?

Cheers

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:17 pm

Jeez, can't be bothered to search or even look at the capture dialog -- there's a capture duration option right there.

Post by **Ron P.** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:26 pm

I'd show you where to find the answer but it would be somewhat time consuming to do so. Besides THoff already has taken the time. He apparently can be bothered a bit more...

Ron P.

swannies1983 · Post by **swannies1983** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:06 am

oopppssss...yes you can tease me now! Blind as a bat!

Oh thanks for the sarcasm by the way...good work people...glad to hear the nice and warm welcome you give newbies

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:48 am

I just found it ironic that you probably spent more time typing your original message than it would have taken to check the program itself or the manual.

Anyway, welcome aboard.

swannies1983 · Post by **swannies1983** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:00 am

THoff wrote:I just found it ironic that you probably spent more time typing your original message than it would have taken to check the program itself or the manual.

Anyway, welcome aboard.

lol...it's all good! I deserved it for being blind! I thought the duration was simply another version of the elapsed time when capturing

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 4:03 am

You know I think you can buy some of the races on commercial dvd.
They will also highlight the exciting parts of the races.
The nice thing about commercial dvd's is the sounds from the races.

MD

swannies1983 · Post by **swannies1983** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 4:26 am

maddrummer3301 wrote:You know I think you can buy some of the races on commercial dvd.
They will also highlight the exciting parts of the races.
The nice thing about commercial dvd's is the sounds from the races.

MD

Cool sounds good. I'm just getting a mate to tape the races from Fox and I then watch the race. If there are a lot of crashes I then convert them to DVD