Vegas Video 4 ?

[Marco33]

While capturing a 2 hour movie With vegas from DAC-100 & FireWire, it has a readout of

Dropped frames
Capture time
Total time (something like that)

Anyway

It read "Dropped frames 41"

After I hit stop a popup comes up saying total frames etc: It also lists "dropped frames" but, it says "dropped frames 0"

Any thoughts?

[BJ_M]

Dropped frames 41 is correct

[Marco33]

Dropped frames don't realy concern me.

41 frames in a movies with 80,000 ( give or take) doesn't seem like much.

What should I expect to see after I autho to DVD?

Some AVI's that I captured with dropped frames seem to play...well... nothing durring a dropped frame area. But if I skip ahead the rest plays fine.

Now when I used to capture with my old MSI card ( straight to MPEG2) it would drop frames but, it would still play. Those frames would be missing but you could hardly tell.

Hate to have a dvd play fine then, durring the dropped frames portion show nothing.

Like to know before I re-ncode the AVI file.

[scottvf]

How fast is your prosessor? I never had dropped frames, and I use vegas 4.0 all the time. I use a amd 2.4 mhz

[BJ_M]

you dont need a fast cpu to capture dv .. but a drive that got lots of room and not fragmented is a good plan ..

[Marco33]

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What's up with that?

anyway...


1.5 gig processor

40 gig seperate drive to capture.

What should I expect from the dropped frames after I autho it to DVD? Will those frames just be missing and not be noticable or will the video actualy stop and show nothing?

[BJ_M]

look on your time line in vegas to see if you see any black frames .. you can scroll real fast (scrub) and they should be noticable - if there any ..

use your JKL keys

[rhegedus]

I tend to believe the reading on the right of the screen rather than what comes up in the pop-up. Don't know why it does that........

[holistic]

When dealing with DV , dropped frames are typically a result of a bad 'data' source. Just ignore.

I get dropped frames occassionally when i record then play the video back for the kids to watch BUT don't stop before the last recording .This results in a little "head noise" (for want of better term) .Make sense !?

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[Marco33]

look on your time line in vegas to see if you see any black frames .. you can scroll real fast (scrub) and they should be noticable - if there any ..

use your JKL keys

Thanks " Indeed... you are as powerfull as the Emperor has forseen"

Looked through it... seems fine. Probably the tape.

... also running the Video through a SIMA before the DAC... hmm

[scottvf]

Oops! I meant hard drive. How fast is your hard drive? I use western digital 120jb with 8mb cache. 7200rpm's. In vegas manual it says if you can have dropped frames if your hard drive is slow.

[Marco33]

Western Digital jb-? with 2mb cache, 7200rpm's. I believe both drives are the same. The capture too drive is 3 years old the OS drive is brand new.

[scottvf]

That should be fast enough. Be sure to turn off any programs running in the background, like norton or such.

[Marco33]

I watched the DVD I made... boy, the DAC-100 is great.

Anyway

It seemed to drop all 41 frames at the same scene. Cutting out about 3 seconds of straight footage, it just jumped right to the next picture in sync.

I'm going to re-run that one scene through the system and test it.