problems with getting video tape from camera into VS8

aussie121 · Post by **aussie121** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:29 am

ok I am having problems getting my tape into VS8 I have downloaded the patches and it still freezes after 2 minsI have 2 hard drives c drive which is FAT and e drive which is NTFS I have around 60 gig of space on E drive so i reckon that is big enough Have also follow instructions that have posted on here regarding video input but can not get any further than 2 mins am I doing something wrong or is it VS8 using a winfast card i can get as much video on e drive as I want so i do not think my pc is the problem I am bring in the video on either avi or mpeg still the same problem system is xp sp2 2.4 motherboard with 512 gig of ram both hard drives are 80 gig each so I am am my wits end to why VS8 will not take more than 2 mins video with a firewire it just freezes the pc?I also down loaded some transitions from burger put them in and the vs8 frooze the pc so it looks like I am having a few problems any help in this matter would be great

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:56 am

Some punctuation in the matter would also be great! Difficult to read without it...

But as to your problem, what kind of DV/AVI are your trying to capture: with Type 1 or Type 2 encoder? If the latter, then you need a fairly powerful computer to do it. Also, what is your source? Digital or analogue?

If you are capturing direct to MPEG, have you checked to make sure that you have the correct plug-in (Tools > Change Capture Plug-in)?

And finally, which WinFast card are you using. I have the WinFast Dv2000 which seems to work fine, both for inbuilt TV capture, as well as for external DV (via the inbuilt Firewire port) and MPEG capture (though for the latter, I confess I use the card's own capture settings, and only later call the clips up into Video Studio).

aussie121 · Post by **aussie121** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:01 pm

Ken sorry about the bad english will try better this time.
ok I am capturing Digital, with type 1 encoder.
my capture plug is,ulead direct show capture plug in.
The winfast card I am using, is winfast tv2000 xp, which I have have no problems with getting it on to my hard drive.
my settings with this card are mpeg-2 O ptimal Quality
capture resolution is720 x 576 pal.
mpeg 2 bitrate constant
video quality is 1000
target data rate is 8000
audio capture is mpeg 1 audio layer 11.
at this stage this seems to be working ok.
I can get video in VS8 using the winfast as the source so perhaps it is the firewire that could be the problem.