This is a new one to me but I'm new to this. I just tried transfering a friends old wedding video onto my computer. The video is on 8mm tape, I'm playing back in my Digital8 camcorder and feeding the DV out to computer firewire port. Capturing with Scenalyzer.

This tape was all made with one camcorder, lasts almost two hours, filmed over about a 5 hour wedding/reception 5 years ago.

During capture Scenalyzer seems to break it up into various size avi files. I ended up with 15 total. When I try to append with VirtualDub it tells me it can't append "The video streams have different data formats"

I'd previously used this same setup to do another 8mm tape from a different event, recorded with the same camcorder over 10 years ago. That was fine, one long capture and a single avi result. And I've done other captures using this Digital8 camcorder recording/playback to Scenalyzer or my vcr through ADVC100 to Scenalyzer. All without this problem.

I did have several dropped frames during this capture (usually none) but these don't seem to have any relation to where Scenalyzer broke up the avi's. I was watching the preview window during the capture and making notes.

When I looked at the files with AVIcodec the only thing I see different in the "Video:" line (other than the varying file Mb sizes) is the Kbps numbers. All over the place. 28912Kbps, 7894Kbps, 28795Kbps, 28813Kbps, 22215Kbps, 6965Kbps,

Is this what VirtualDub is complaining about? Or did I miss something else?

Why would the Kbps be varying like that? This was original 8mm camcorder so analog recording.

How can I get these together in one avi? I did some forum searchs but most references seem to be different audio stream formats. I did see a comment about using AviSynth to join. I don't know AviSynth yet but planned to eventually learn it. Is there something else I can do now?

If I just join together will that varying Kbps cause any other problems down the line? I use TMPGEncPlus to encode, end product is dvd.

I also thought of trying to feed the a/v outputs of the camcorder out and run through my ADVC100 to convert to DV rather than using the camcorders built in one and see if any difference but won't have time for awhile. Think that might help?

Thanks,
Jeff