Capture only 1 second long, anyone have this problem??

ebone · Post by **ebone** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:43 am

As many of you know by long-winded ramblings, I'm currently capturing analog footage from a VCR to CPU thru my old sony digital camcorder. Everything works fine now except for this:

If I start a capture of a VHS tape and leave the room/house for several hours, the capture is only 1 second long when I come back. I know it kept capturing because the file size is huge. I've also seen it working before I leave. This has happened several times now. If I am home and stop the capture roughly 30 mins to 1 hour after the VHS tape is done, I don't have the problem.

The reason I have to get this resolved is that I have tons of VHS/VHS-C tapes to capture. The only way I'll get them done is by starting them when going to work,etc. because they take so long to capture.

I'm capturing the analog footage to DV through the DV camcorder. I don't have this problem capturing a DV tape because the capture automatically stops when the tape ends. It doesn't know of course that the VHS tape has stopped so it keeps capturing.

Is there some glitch in VS if your capture is too long?

Has anyone else had this problem? I tried searching the forums for this but it's a difficult thing to search for.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:28 am

ebone · Post by **ebone** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:09 pm

hmm, I don't see that specifically as an option if that's what you mean but by playing around with it, I now see that you can change the duration ticker before you start capturing. Once you capture it reverts back to 'elapsed time' but then stops at the duration that you input.

Seems to work on the 30 second tests I just did. Hopefully it will work on a couple of hours.

Thanks for the help.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:51 pm

Hi ebone

Yes I have had problems with capture from a VHS.
This may not be your problem though.
It only seems to happen when using commercial tapes.
Whether the tape is copy-write protected I do not know. That¡¦s if the tape can be protected.

I used an ATI 128 pro capture card connected via composite cable.

The audio captures ok, but the video captures about 2 seconds then continues to repeat the two seconds to the end. Repeating the two seconds over and over again.

I have not bothered looking for a cure as I now capture using my camcorder as through-put, with no problems

Can you explain you said (the capture is only 1 second long when I come back. I know it kept capturing because the file size is huge.)

If the capture is only one second, why is the file size huge?????????

Trevor

ebone · Post by **ebone** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:09 pm

The size of the file is 35 gig but when you play it (or check the properties) it is 1 second long.

I think I may have found the solution by entering in a limited duration beforehand. I will test it today and let you know what happens.

ebone · Post by **ebone** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:54 am

I set the duration to 3 hours for a roughly 2 hour vhs and it worked fine.