Pause on Capture

Sschuller · Post by **Sschuller** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:41 pm

I need to be able to pause the capture process and then resume capture. Is this possible with any of the Ulead products or is there some other software that has that capability?

This capture is DV in via firewire to a laptop recording out to an external firewire harddrive.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Steve

JoReneA · Post by **JoReneA** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:14 pm

I think I have done what you need to do. Just click on stop capture and then click on start when you want to start again. Or do you mean something else? You can set whether you want the camera to be controlled from the computer or not, so if you want to stop the camera while you pause, make sure it is controlled by the computer. If you want it to continue, set it so that the computer does not control it.

(I know this setting can be changed in version 2, but haven't used ver 3 enough to know just where the setting is in 3.)

Sschuller · Post by **Sschuller** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:56 pm

When I hit stop, a screen pops up, "flushing transcode buffer", this takes a few minutes on the laptop and a few seconds one of my desktops. If you esc. out of the transcode buffer it does not complete the entire capture. When you hit capture again it generates another file. I did a 20 min. capture the other night and it ended up with a good looking mpeg but it took almost 25 minutes to get to that point. Meanwhile Ulead had written a 4 gig file out to my firewire with some unrecognized extension. I guess that is the original avi capture that is ultimately converted to the Mpeg1 I am looking for.

Do you know of any software capture programs that will capture in Mpeg1 directly without the avi to mpeg1 conversion? This assumes a DV input in.

Thanks

Steve

JoReneA · Post by **JoReneA** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:31 pm

I'm not sure if there is software that will do this. My thought is that if you are using firewire, it is coming in as DV which is avi, I think; and that it must transcode before it can save it as mpg, either 1 or 2. ULead MF3 has the ability to combine files into one file, at least for the authoring process. Is there a reason all your captured video needs to be in one file as opposed to several?

Liv1NgD34Dg1rl · Post by **Liv1NgD34Dg1rl** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:05 am

Try the program that comes with windows xp. Movie Maker 2 will let you start and stop captures into a single file.

Whether it supports the file formats you want to use or anything further, I don't know.

Good luck