Error - This AVI Codec ID cannot be trimmed

[RamSydney]

I've just captured a video file from my video camera. I have split the video into scenes using the "Split By Scene" feature. Now when I try to save each trimmed video (there are over 100 of them) I receive the error message "This AVI Codec ID cannot be trimmed". Why????

[RamSydney]

I have worked out how to overcome this problem. Please disregard this message.

[DiscCoasterPro]

Hi, would you mind sharing your solution, I'm trying to grasp this stuff also.

thanks

[RamSydney]

Hi, would you mind sharing your solution, I'm trying to grasp this stuff also.

thanks

From what I can determine the problem was because I was using an analogue connection from my digital camcorder to my TV card when I was capturing the video. I purchased a DV cable and now I don't encounter the Codec problem. The capture speed is now much faster and even think the quality is better. Maybe the problem was occuring because I was trying to capture digital video using an analogue connection and then Video Studio had to convert it back to digital???

[Ken Berry]

If your video camera is a digital mini DV one, then yes, you should have connected it via a DV/Firewire/IEEE1394/iLink cable (it has all these possible names!) The speed is very high and the quality of the capture should be exactly the same as in your camera if you are capturing to DV/AVI format. Moreover, if you are capturing in this format, then you can set the capture to split by scene as the capture is occurring.

If you were not using a Firewire cable, then I am not sure how you could have connected your camera to your computer apart from using a USB cable -- but only a few cameras use USB 2.0, and of these only a smaller proportion can be used to transfer high quality video (though they can be used to transfer lower quality streaming video like a web camera). Or were you using a plug from your camera's AV jack which had RCA yellow, red and white cables/plugs or an S-video plus RCA audio cable to your TV card?

With mpeg-2 captures you can in any case have a variety of problems if your computer is not very powerful, though some people manage it with no problems at all. But another aspect of capturing direct to mpeg is that you can only 'split by scene' once the whole capture has been finished.

[DiscCoasterPro]

Ahh .. thank you very much for taking the time to explain. Wow, yes I see many folks having transfer problems if they don't use Firewire. In fact this little analog to digital device I purchased also captures via USB2 and it made me wonder about quality. Thats when I learned about the Canopus device that used firewire. I hope this works better, it sure cost enough <sigh>

thanks again for your reply, I think its a wonderful thing to have people helping people. I sure hope that as I learn more I can be helpful as well.

thanks,
dcp

[Ken Berry]

... just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, I have to muddy it again for you regarding capture devices which use USB 2. I have one and it works great, and there are plenty more out there which also work well with USB 2.0. In fact, I would suspect there are a lot more of them using USB 2 than there are using Firewire. There is no reason why this should not be so as USB 2 is notionally even faster for transfers than Firewire (480 Mbps compared to 400 for Firewire -- though to complicate things still further, there is now also Firewire 800 which, as the name suggests can transfer at twice the rate of the 'old' version!!) There are, I believe, some new video cameras which use USB 2 for high quality transfer of video, but the others which have USB 2.0 ports, still only seem to be configured to transfer streaming video at lower quality. Question of architecture, I guess...

Incidentally, can I ask how much the Canopus device costs in the US? Here in Australia it costs A$539 which is about US$400.

[DiscCoasterPro]

I paid exactly $389.95 plus $16 dollars second day delivery. Thats tomorrow

I hope it was worth it.