Problems capturing with Ulead 6.0

[xinjingqiao]

Hi,
I am trying to transfer a video of a school performance to a DVD. A couple of weeks ago I used my Dazzle DVC and the results were just so-so. I don't know how to use the software with it so it is possible that I did not set it right. I decided this time to use Ulead VideoStudio 6.0 and a borrowed Sony Digital handycam. I captured a few minutes of another tape and burned a sample to a DVD and it worked very well. When I try to capture this tape (actually is 3 tapes for a total of almost 3 hours) after about 9 minutes the capturing pauses and displays a message "the capturing was interrupted. Your hard drive may be full" What is captured, however, looks very good. I am using a partition on a hard drive that has 27 GB free so I don't think it is full. I have even reformatted it to make sure there are no glitches on the disk. I have a 98 and XP partition on my hard drive. I have Ulead installed on both partitions. I have tried it on both OS and get the same problem. I would like to be able to stop using the Dazzle product - I remember a couple of years when I was making VCDs it gave good results - a little finicky however - but the software insists on controlling all of the DLL's on your computer so that if you install a new program you run the risk of not being able to use the Dazzle software again.

I don't know where to begin to look on this one. Any suggestions? I downloaded the driver for the Sonywebcam. I also have a Winfast TV card. Can I use this for capture also?

HELP!!!

Celron 2.0 Ghz, 80 GB 7200 rpm hard drive; 120 GB 5400 rpm hard drive; 512 mb ram; ATI 9600

[yoda313]

Hello,
What kind of tapes are these? Are you using digital tapes? I don't know how your connected to the computer. If your using regular audio/video cables any capture card should work with those (and they should have dvd settings). If they're purely digital (ie firewire stuff) I don't have experience with those and can't help much there.

Kevin

[xinjingqiao]

They are DV tapes. I have a USB connection. There is a place for a DV connection. Does DV mean firewire? There is no firewire cable for the camera, though my computer has it...do i have to buy a special cable for my camera or is this a generic cable for a dv to firewire??

[yoda313]

Hello,
Sorry I'm not a dv camera expert. You'll have to READ THE MANUAL !
Or you can go to the camera website. I believe if you have a standard capture card you can use the basic audio visual cables to hook it up. Other than that, sorry I can't help you any more. All I have is an old analogue Sony camcorder. Good luck.
Kevin

[Bstansbury]

You should give up trying to use USB to transfer any video to your PC. USB was ment for still shots, not video. Get a firewire cable and connect to both your camera and your PC and you'll be happy.

Also, there is no way you are going to do anything with only a 27 GB hard disk. When you transfer video in DV format which is AVI format it takes a lot of space. I don't remember the exact ratio but I think AVI is about 5:1 before compression to DVD. Therefore a full DVD disk of 4.7 GB would be about 23.5 GB and that would be before you have to edit. Once you start to edit in VideoStudio, you still have to keep the orginal DV.

I do this all the time an I have a 30 GB drive for XP, 80 GB HD for software, and 2 -120 GB drives I use to store video, DV, editing, Titles, etc.