Set Capturing Time Limit

railroadguy · Post by **railroadguy** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:03 am

OK, I read a review that says VS10+ allows for Set Capturing Time Limit.

http://video-editing-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

I have searched the PDF every way from Sunday and can't see how to do this. What I want to do is capture a 2 hour 8mm tape, but I want one hour parts for easier handling. So without having to run up and down stairs at the hour mark to stop the capture and then begin a new capture, I thought this would be great.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:13 am

Look for this screen shot

in the Tutorial From Camcorder to DVD with videoStudio

railroadguy · Post by **railroadguy** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:13 am

Oh Man... I saw that and saw that it kept track of the recoding time but never knew it could be set for a record time. Guess I better keep reading the tutorials

Thank ye sir!

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:36 am

That might help. It's actually something we try to encourage around here too

I doubt if this will give you what you want though. If I'm not mistaken, this would allow you to set a capture duration, yes. But, after the set time has expired, capture will just stop. I'm not a regular user of VS and, hence, cannot be sure but it would be worth a trial. Set a duration of a minute or so and see what happens after.

In MSP, one can set the capture to be split automatically. If I capture analog through my digital camcorder's AV In, I set the capture file to be split every 1 GB. That gives me a number of small enough sequences to easily manipulate while it does it automatically. The capture time, I set to the tape duration in case I will not be around to stop the capture once the tape runs out.

railroadguy · Post by **railroadguy** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:26 am

heinz-oz wrote: I doubt if this will give you what you want though. If I'm not mistaken, this would allow you to set a capture duration, yes. But, after the set time has expired, capture will just stop.

In my case, that is all I want. It will make it easier, well to me anyway, to work with one hour sets rather than two hour sets.

It does seem to work BUT, and there is always a but, back in the day I for some reason would finish shooting an event and maybe switch tapes to video something else. When I went back to the first tape I would FF past the last scene by 5 or 10 seconds. VS does not seem to like that and when it senses no signal coming from the Canopus, stops the capture process. Is there a way to over ride this or do I need to ride shotgun and watch for an area like that?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:38 am

I would just continue filming without the 5 second blank bit.
If you use a digital camcorder it senses the time and date and places that information onto the tape (you can choose to display or hide the time/date) then when importing your video, you can select split by scene.

What then happens is that VideoStudio treats each change in time/date as a new scene and splits your video accordingly.

You can do this in two ways.
1. Split by scene during capture - in which case you get lots of small video files on your hard drive - 1 for each scene.
2. Capture as one video - without the split by scene selected.
Then after capture you can select 'split by scene.' - This then creates several thumbnails in your video library.

The choice you make is largely a matter of personal preference and may be dictated by the content of the video you are working with.

Each method has its pro's and con's.

Please view:
Split by scene in this link
The Capture Stage where I have explained it with some screen shots.

railroadguy · Post by **railroadguy** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:48 pm

This is a Canapus 300 problem which confused VS10+ to stop the capture.
When the 8mm deck hits the 10 seconds of unrecorded tape, the Canapus unit switched from analog input to digital input. I am guessing because that is the default and when there is no signal, that's where it wants to be. Will this causes VS10+ problems and it thinks there is no signal what so ever coming in and shuts down the capture.

This was not a 10 second piece of my hand over the lens which would still produce a video signal but 10 seconds of unrecoded tape which is why the Split by scene has no bearing on this problem.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:27 pm

Hi

Sorry Dan

But VS will stop capture if it detects an unrecorded portion of video.

It is not directly associated with Canapus, any unrecognised input--no capture source-- will stop capture.

If you fed the source video through an analogue / digital encoder. ¡¥Pass Through¡¦ using a digital camcorder, you should not have a problem. The unrecorded portion being coded to Avi.

Using a Mini Dv-Tape it is best to record from start to end with the lens cap on.
This sets the time code and future recordings are ok, even with a pause.

Why don¡¦t the manufactures sell them like that.? With an embedded timecode.

A bit late for older material, things haven¡¦t changed.

No good news, Preview the tape, noting the capture periods, set those as capture duration ---otherwise I think you will have to sit and watch.

Trevor

railroadguy · Post by **railroadguy** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:23 pm

Thanks for the info Trevor. Watching is not that bad

I can also Play/FF through parts of the tape where I know this may happen. Worst case, I set for an hour, come back, rewind if it has stopped and start the next section of tape.
Now, if I had 150 foot cables I could run them down stairs to the large TV and watch there as it's capturing up here. Naaaa... I'm not THAT lazy