capture keeps stopping after 17 mins

[clash101]

hi im anewbie and when i try to capture a dv recording it sops after 17 mins saying there may not be enough drive space even though there is 80gb free>can someone please help its driving me crazy


cheers
peter

[GeorgeW]

What size is that 17-minute file? Are you capturing to DV Type-2 files? And is it possible it is capturing closer to 18-19minutes?

Do you have Fat32 formatted hard drives? If so, you could be running into the 4gb filesize limitation of Fat32...

The one thing that might say this is not the case is that 17 minutes of dv .avi doesn't quite add up to 4gb (but if you are capturing dv type-2 .avi's, then it gets closer).

[joosuna]

I am having a similar problem in creating a video file...some times
the 25 minute project will go through the process. but the finished product stops at 18 minutes...I have windows XP.
I capture the original video directly from my mini dv camera.

[GeorgeW]

I am having a similar problem in creating a video file...some times
the 25 minute project will go through the process. but the finished product stops at 18 minutes...I have windows XP.
I capture the original video directly from my mini dv camera.

How are your drives formatted? Fat32 or NTFS?

[clash101]

mine is fat 32

peter

[GeorgeW]

mine is fat 32

peter

so are the captures stopping at the 4gb limit?

[clash101]

yes they are what can i do about it? all i want to do is copy my tapes onto dvd really so i can play them on a stand alone dvd player what do you suggest

thanks for your help

peter

[GeorgeW]

What Operating System are you running? How many hard drives, and how much free space on each?

Do you plan to do any editing, or do you just want to "transfer" your dv tapes to dvd?

[clash101]

xp with two hard drives 60g and 140g i just want to transfer the tapes but i want to watch them on my dvd player with my television

peter

[GeorgeW]

xp with two hard drives 60g and 140g i just want to transfer the tapes but i want to watch them on my dvd player with my television

peter

You have a few choices

1) make one of your hard drives (not the system drive) NTFS -- then you can capture as big as you want (dv .avi runs ~13gb per hour)
2) capture in smaller 4gb chunks (18-19 minutes at a time)
3) capture directly to mpeg2 (if your computer is up to the task -- you would need to make sure to disable all non-essential background tasks, and don't do any thing while capturing). This won't get around the 4gb limit, but you will be able to capture much more "chunks" at a time depending on your bitrate -- this is not ideal if you plan to do heavy editing, but it's great if you just want to burn it to DVD because it can be DVD Compliant as soon as it is captured
4) I'm sure there are other choices that I can't think of at the moment...

[clash101]

thanks for your help how do i make a drive go to ntfs?

peter

[GeorgeW]

thanks for your help how do i make a drive go to ntfs?

peter

here's a link to Microsoft
http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... us;Q307881

it's not reversible...