Flushing DV Transcode Buffer ???? Vid Studio 8

[hopefull]

I am using Sony Handi Cam with vid s8. Have succesfully completed about
40 hours of video. Capture Edit and Burned with no problems. Today when I attempt to captuer I find that about every 4 minutes I get the following (Flushing DV transcode buffer} This breaks my vid into many little clips. when I edit I find that sound is not in sync. I didnt have this problem before. I have defraged by hard drive and i have lots of unused space, about 60 gigs. Can anyone please help with this problem.

[Ron P.]

Hi Hopefull,

Flushing the Transcode Buffer indicates that the computer is not able to keep up with the transcoding in real time, so it creates a buffer, which eventually will fill up. When it does, capturing is halted, the backlog of data is converted, and the buffer is emptied, then capture is resumed.

Link to complete post:
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... 3019#60252

How are you capturing your video and to what format, DV-AVI, MPEG-2 or some other format? I would recommend capturing to DV-AVI type 1.

Ron P.

[etech6355]

You haven't filled out your profile so we don't know how much memory you have in the machine.
Capturing to Mpeg2 is demanding.
You can lower the compression, average is about 70%.
Increase the available amount of free memory.
Make sure no other programs have been run before starting VS.
Capturing DV to Mpeg conversion relies on real memory and a fast processor.
Otherwise the program starts to use the windows cache file (on the harddisk) to increase the memory. The harddisk is very slow compared to the real memory in the computer.

For the best video results use as Vidoman suggests and capture as DV-type1 (dv.avi format).

etech

[jchunter]

Hopefull,
Forty hours of video is way too much to process without having your workflow down to a science.

(1) Your first problem is that Video Studio 8.0 had a well documented set of bugs that caused most users on this forum to have serious audio/video synchronization problems that were never fixed properly in version 8. Don't use it. Version 9 worked fine, however now you should upgrade to version 10+ before proceeding further.

(2) Proper video editing workflow is essential for success. Follow the Recommended Procedure on the top sticky post!

(3) All we know of your system is that it has (had?) 60 GB of space. When you realize that every hour of video captured in Mpeg2 requires about 4 GB and you will need another 4 GB for the video file, that is not a lot of space. Post your computer specs!

(4) You say that you have already captured 40 hours of mpeg2. I assume you were not getting transcode errors before. So, this would indicate that your computer is fast enough to capture direct to Mpeg2. Switching your workflow to capture DV format is not necessary and will exacerbate your disk problem because an hour of DV needs 13 GB of space (+ 4GB for the video file).

(5) I suspect that your hard disk has become fragmented and as you try to capture additional video, the transcode buffer can't empty fast enough. Consider adding another internal 7200rpm hard disk drive.

Most of all, complete a small project all the way to DVD to validate your workflow.

[hopefull]

Thanks for the help. I found my problem. I had inadvertently moved the slider in Capture Options to 100 percent. I have returned it to 70% and am moving along fine now. By the way the 40 hours was not contionuous it was in 2 hour segments. Thanks again to all for the assistance.