capturing using adobe premier

[mol3000]

i have this capture card/tv tuner card and i am using sony dv cam with a s-video cord to capture/wit adobe..... well some times the adobe locks up and leaves a temp avi there or sometimes it comes back wit some error about it capturing..... its like i can do a little at a time.... well now when it do capture the avi dont work no mattter the size and it didnt do that b4!!!!!!! can anyone please help

[Foofighters02]

You may want to check your drivers for your video capture card. Make sure they are compatable with your OS and the version of premiere that you have.

[mol3000]

yes i did that already and it is.....

[WizyWyg]

Need more info:

Version of premiere
What capture card do you own?
Do you have the latest drivers
Operating sytem?
How much ram?
How much HD space?

[mol3000]

Version of premiere? v6
What capture card do you own? BROOKTREE PCI VIDEO CAPTURE DRIVR
Do you have the latest drivers? yes
Operating sytem? win 98 se
How much ram? 256 sdram
How much HD space? 20g hd wit 9 g left

[mol3000]

also for some reason when it gets to 399 gb for the avi file it stops and gives me a error.... i have like 3 to 4 gb left and i went in and set the settings not to give me a warning until the space IS REAL LOW...... also so i dont have to keep doing this movie over and over i try to set it to save every 5 min... but its not saving.... when i go back and try to play the avi it acts like it was stop prematurely

[chomchom]

I had the same problem. It turns out that certain capture cards will only allow up to 4 gigs (for example) of capturing. It has nothing to do with the rest of your system. Buy a better video card.

[WizyWyg]

also for some reason when it gets to 399 gb for the avi file it stops and gives me a error.... i have like 3 to 4 gb left and i went in and set the settings not to give me a warning until the space IS REAL LOW...... also so i dont have to keep doing this movie over and over i try to set it to save every 5 min... but its not saving.... when i go back and try to play the avi it acts like it was stop prematurely

Dont you mean 399 mB's not Gb's? I would love to get a 400 gb drive, but damn, they dont make them yet

Problem is varying on your setup
1. Win 98 has a 4gb limit on AVI files
2. 20 gb with only 9 left? ADD a new drive.
3. IT IS your system, and it is your card. Brooktree freaking sucks.

Also what is your chipset and speed?
IF its a Duron or Celeron, give up trying to do anything on them.

[mol3000]

first of all... i did mean 3.99 gb (my faoult) i have a video card with 64mb or ram and yues.... this particular computer is a 600 or 650 mhz duron.... but that shouldnt have anything to do wit it if i got 256 of ram.............RIGHT???????? ALSO HOW DO WIN 98 PUT A LIMIT ON .AVI FILES?????? also if none of this works i am thinking of usint this unlead i have or hollywood fx.... but i cant get unlead to copy over a few min and when it do it also freezes up.... and hollywood i dont even know how to make it capture anything........

[heathcot]

Try using ScenalyzerLive for capturing, it is the best tool I have found. It will even do a fast index searhc, let you select the scenes you want, then go back and capture them automatically.

[mol3000]

where is that software located?????? is it anywhere i can dl a trial version of it????

[WizyWyg]

first of all... i did mean 3.99 gb (my faoult) i have a video card with 64mb or ram and yues.... this particular computer is a 600 or 650 mhz duron.... but that shouldnt have anything to do wit it if i got 256 of ram.............RIGHT???????? ALSO HOW DO WIN 98 PUT A LIMIT ON .AVI FILES?????? also if none of this works i am thinking of usint this unlead i have or hollywood fx.... but i cant get unlead to copy over a few min and when it do it also freezes up.... and hollywood i dont even know how to make it capture anything........

You need to read the papers on win98
Its a well known fact that win98 has always had a limit on the size of Avi files.
Upgrade to xp as this limit does not exist
YOU cannot capture beyond 4.0 gb's.

I've never had problems capturing with Adobe Premire, but then again, I use a DC2000 to capture (its a $2000 capture card)

I can't really say what your problem is, since Video capturing has soooo many factors that could cause problems

[mol3000]

ok....now i am using this software that compusa had on a free rebate and its call moviexone plus (after runnin scan disk and defraging my computer)...... i tried that and that also locks up..... i cant figure out the deal..... also thats real stupid for win to only let u capture a 4g avi.... what da hell is that.... did somebody just sit down and say.... lets see how to make people mad........ 4gb avi.... thats it...... so whats that about and is their a fix for it????? also i have thinkin about upgrading to win xp pro but dont want to cause i dont know if it will let everything in my computer is compatiable.......

[resnullius]

it's not win 98 that's the prob for the 4 gig file limit. it's the format of the hard drive fat32. win xp has the same prob if you don't convert your hard drive to ntsf. Anyways until xp has a service pack 2 or so i would'nt touch it(too many kinks to work out). If you want to check if everything in your comp is compatible check the windoze site they have a compatibility checker.

[mol3000]

ok.. when i use ulead to convert...... it will convert small avi..... but if i let it go over a certain time then try to stop it it comes back and says it cant open avi with its current driver..... but it dont do that if i only do a min or so.... is their any other plugins or little programs that might help this thing be stable..... I AM GETTIN FUCKIN PISS FOR REAL.........

[WizyWyg]

it's not win 98 that's the prob for the 4 gig file limit. it's the format of the hard drive fat32. win xp has the same prob if you don't convert your hard drive to ntsf. Anyways until xp has a service pack 2 or so i would'nt touch it(too many kinks to work out). If you want to check if everything in your comp is compatible check the windoze site they have a compatibility checker.

sorry to say how wrong you are about xp. Its the best and I would suggest upgrading REAL QUICK from win98 <which is the buggiest of all buggiest OS's out there)

If you choose to stick with 98, you're in for a world of hurt and complaints and errors, and problems and crashes, etc etc etc.

[WizyWyg]

ok....now i am using this software that compusa had on a free rebate and its call moviexone plus (after runnin scan disk and defraging my computer)...... i tried that and that also locks up..... i cant figure out the deal..... also thats real stupid for win to only let u capture a 4g avi.... what da hell is that.... did somebody just sit down and say.... lets see how to make people mad........ 4gb avi.... thats it...... so whats that about and is their a fix for it????? also i have thinkin about upgrading to win xp pro but dont want to cause i dont know if it will let everything in my computer is compatiable.......

1. Upgrade real quick. Format that drive, and do a clean install to Xp.
2. Add more ram
3. GET A BIGGER HARD DRIVE. 20 gb aint going to cut it, and you're nuts to try and capture with only 9gb of space left. Hell, making a DVD rquires that you have a scratch disk of 10 gb's at least. You need at least 40 gb to do any type of movie capturing, editing, and conversion.
4. 4gb limit - was at a time when capturing/ripping didn't exist. People's extent to movie files on the computer was to shitty avi's (which were lower than 4gb), real media and quicktime movies. Remember, this is windows 98. From an era where digitial video editing was only used by studios, and all they did was add title overlays.
5. as for compatiblity, check with the programs home page (the manufacturer of your program). They will bound to have updated drivers or something new to download. Xp has some of the drivers already included.

Simply:
Upgrade, get a bigger HD and do a clean install to Win XP

[mol3000]

i got to much stuff on that particular computer to just reinstall every thing.... also 256 is a lot of ram.... isnt if its over that it suppose to slow the computer down (what i heard) and for right now all i am tryin to do is copy a small 30 min video which gonna add up to about 7.5 gb..... i no there is another way

[JerryH2]

Dude, do you absolutely have to us Premiere to capture? If you want to get past the 4Gig barrier but avoid upgrading to XP, you can use something like VirtualDub to capture your source.

V-Dub will capture video and automatically segment the captured stuff into 2Gig files.

http://www186.pair.com/vdub/

Truth is, though, if you afford to upgrade to WinXP or Win2K and use NTFS, go for it. There's thoeretically NO limit on file size, it's indexing features speed up file search (not a big deal for Video work, perhaps) and it's far more robust for file integrity, meaning you don't have to run Scandisk nearly so often, or if you forget to powerdown correctly. When you consider the myriad of crap M$ can deliver, NTFS is one of their crowning acheivements. :)

Good Luck!

[SirSpiddy]

FYI
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/100d2.htm
Even NTFS has a capture limit

Side Note:
Just this week I dumped Win98 for WinXP
Do yourself a favor, dump 98