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"Dennis Lubert" <plasmahh@tzi.de> wrote in message
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> When I save a piece of the file wit M$ movie maker I can import the piece
> fine (although it seems that the file type is the same).
> The strange thing with the "Canopus DV File Converter" is that it now
looks
> like it stops right after the first "subclip" (or whatever you call it),
> and the file produced is nearly the same as when I save it with M$ Movie
> maker.
It sounds like you're dropping frames. Some capture devices will stop on a
dropped (or can be set to do this). Premiere has an option in the capture
box that lets you ignore dropped frames. If you do this, it will capture
the entire file. However, if you're dropping enough frames it will be quite
visible in the output.
Dropped frames usually indicates one of several things:
1. Poor connections to the video source, i.e. check your cables and
connectors.
2. Insufficient power in whatever device you're using to convert analog to
digital.
3. Too slow a CPU and/or bus to keep up with the digital video stream.
4. Too slow a hard drive.
I haven't been following the entire thread. However, if you're trying to
capture using the huffyuv codec to create uncompressed AVI, you're putting
quite a strain on your hard drive and, more than likely, it can't keep up.
Try capturing to a compressed AVI using the Microsoft DV codec or something
similar. If you no longer have dropped frames, then the fault lies in an
underpowered computer, and the first thing I'd look at is the hard drive.
You may need a RAID system with 7200 rpm drives.
> >
> > There was some trepidation over DV file types in an earlier post. Type 1
> > is audio and video in a single file, Type 2 is audio and video in
separate
> > files (WAV & AVI). Whenever video is captured in Type 2 there is usually
a
> > link in the video header which tells the program to bring in the audio
at
> > the same time.
> >
> > If this is the type of files you have and the video will import, even
> > though there is an error upon loading, place this video on the timeline
> > and then import the audio file as well. Place it on the timeline under
the
> > video track and it should sync up. You can check the match by placing
the
> > timeline cursor at the end of the video, change the timeline increment
to
> > single frame and see if they end at the same spot. Do the same at the
> > beginning of the clip. Once the first clip is sync'd this way placing
the
> > video with audo next to each one in succession should keep it all in
line
> > properly.
> >
> > All in all the solution to the problem you are having is right there in
> > that summary and the setting you are using whenever you start Premiere.
>
> Well I dont have such a summary thing displaying the properties in windows
> explorer. Or do you mean another program that shows this properties ?
If you load the clip into Premiere, highlight the clip and click on the File
drop-down menu, then click on Properties. Alternatively, I think you can
right-click on the clip and select Properties from there.
> And for the settings with a new project, I think I have tried now most of
> the probablye combinations of settings, all dont work....
The new project settings affect only the output, not the input.
>
> After playing a bit with filemon, it seems that the dv file converter
stops
> converting at the same point (during reading the file in) where premiere
> issues the error, where the timecode (?) of the next scene is located.
Ah, okay -- another possibility. Lots of capture devices offer the option of
"stop on time code break." You want to turn off that function. Since you
have time code, the easiest thing to do (assuming you have the hard drive
space) is to capture the video as one continuous file with no scene
detection (using whatever software you have handy). Download Scenealyzer at
www.scenealyzer.com -- the shareware version is free. Use it to do
post-capture scene detection (it can do it either based on time code or on
optical detection) and create the clips you want that way.
>
> greets
>
> Dennis
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