Adobe Premiere 6, WinME, 4Gbytes??

[fred]

I am trying to capture from DV camera (firewire card), and from VHS tape (tuner card). When my capture file gets to 4Gb, Premiere stops and brings up an error message. Is there a way around this??
I want to burn all this onto VCD. This part I have done succesfully with many smaller files. But how do I capture a whole 60 minute MiniDV tape into AVI, for conversion to MPG.
I have 20GB HDD space left to play with.

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[koinhelgo]

get virtual dub
enable capture to multisegment and this will create spill files, each avi wil be a max of 2 gig, but when you open the first in virtual dub it will open all for editing.
the only problem is if you want it to be a complete file you will then have to use some compression or other, div x etc will have a drop in quality but you can fiddle about with things so that you get the best possible. Make sure you don't compress the audio though. Now you can put it into Tmpgenc to make a video cd compatible mpeg.
All the how to's on this site will help with stuff like this.
bottom line is unless you use 2000 or Xp the 4 gig file limit will be a constant pain in the backside.
I use an asus 7700 capture card and an hours video usually comes in at about 3 gigs so. I use the pic video wavelet codec for video compression. I capture in real time to virtual dub, tried premiere 6 and couldn't get what I wanted.
hope this helps - I know it won't with the firewire bit, but might help with the video captures - if so can you not just play your video camera straight into virtual dub with the video capture card.

Ho

[bishop]

Why not use the batch-capturing capabilities of Premiere 6. Just make sure your batch list is frame-accurate... VirtualDub will do analog capture...

[pocholin]

You need to go to 2000 or XP formating your HD to NTFS. Then you can capture the whole 60 minutes, which will give you a file of aprox 12.8 GB.

Another way around this using ME, use Premier's batch capturing, and the on the timeline put all the segments you have to complete your 60 minutes, and export to VCD using Ligos plug in. This way you have a single 60 minutes file.

Alfonso

[fred]

Okay, thanks.
I will go and try batch capture in Prem6.
Not sure exactly how this works, but I think I can sort it out by "trial and error".
Also will give VirtualDub a try.

Windows 2000, or XP would be a last resort, but it may be the simplest solution in the long run.
I'll let you know how I go.

[cwbenz]

Hi.. I have a Hauppauge Win Tv but Premiere 6 won't recognise it. I have initiated Win Tv on camera capture. I could see the capture on WTV but not premiere? Also whyy there's no sound during cap (in WTV, using S-Video input to my Sony analogue cam). Any help is greatly appreciated. Thnx.