Pinnacle Studio 8 and Color Bars

[AlfB]

I use AVI_IO to capture show from TV and use Pinnacle Studio 8 to edit out the commercials. Because AVI_IO creates AVI file segments, I have several segments to pull together and edit. The end of most (maybe all) of the segments have several frames with just color bars (thats how Pinnacle Studio shows them). Can anyone explain why I have the color bar frames, where they come from and should I edit them out?

[Redd]

Well that' a good one. Not surpised by anything Pinnacle does. I'd edit them out. You may want to capture with scLive.

[donpedro]

What did you use to capture ? Are those bars presented when you play them with Windows Media Player ?

I would take them out too...

Something more... I do not recomend PS8 for making DVD from TV capture... It is not ment to do that.

[SnoopyDad]

DonPedro

I know this is abit off-topic, but what s/w do you recommend.

Thanks

[AlfB]

All I use Pinnacle for is to edit the segmented AVI files from AVI_IO into one contiguous AVI without commercials. I then use TMPGEnc to encode to VCD. The reason I do this is that every other tool I use to edit out the commercials seems to create some type of audio problem from times without sound to static to sync problems. Anyone have a suggested program for editing segmented AVI files? Other than Pinnacle Studio, I have tried Ulead and VirtualDub for AVI and MPEG1 files. The only solution that has worked well so far is Pinnacle.

As to the question on when the bars are shown, when editing the clip, Pinnacle has a slider for start and end with a window showing each frame being pointed to by each slider. When I play the clip, I do not see the color bars but when I slide the end slider to the last few frames, they usually contain color bars. I hope this makes sense. Hard to explain.