Problems capturing video

[harryh]

I'm using MF2 to capture video over a firewire and it only captures about 4 minutes of video. I'm capturing to DVD format with high quality mpeg setting. I tried capturing the entire miniDV and also by specifying a length of 10 minutes. It first looks like it froze and after a few minutes it shows the "Transcoding" progress bar. When I check the length of the video it is always about 4 minutes even if it looked like it was capturing the entire tape. Does anybody have any ideas what could be causing this?

[jcc]

Check that the capture drive has enough space. I will have defaulted to the drive upon which DVDMF is installed.

[harryh]

I actually have more than 36GB free on both of my drives. The capturing seems to be going well for the first four minutes or so, and then starts to delay the video being displayed. It gets to a point were the machine seems to be frozen. Although the machine doesn't respond, the hard drive activity light is on. After several minutes the transcoding progress bar appears. It takes a good amount of time to finish it. When I go back to the main screen the video saved is just about 4 minutes long.

[maddrummer3301]

>> I'm capturing to DVD format with high quality mpeg setting.

Performing DV to Mpeg2 conversion "On The Fly" is very CPU and memory intensive for MF 2/3/4.
Either reduce the compression/quality setting to a lower value or capture
in dv.avi format Type-1 and transcode to mpeg2.

Hope this helps,

MD