VirtualDub, Win98 and filesize

[thegig]

Since Window98 has the wonderful 2gig limit, I was curious if there is a tool or setting that would ease that capturing routine. Unless I'm an idiot, which could be the case, In order to capture a 2 hour movie, I have to pause the tape/player, stop virtualdub, rename the file that was just captured, then restart the capture in virtualdub and then unpause the source. MULTIPLE TIMES. Then I have to go into VirtualDub, append avi's, edit frames in between(which sometimes causes a "blip" in the sound) then frameserve to TMPGEnc. Someone please tell me I'm an idiot, Nicely .

[Macros746]

Okay, you are an idiot. No, just kidding. VirtualDub supports multisegment capture which means it will nicely split up your avi file over several files to fool Win98. Then, when you later open the avi file for editing, it will treat it as though it were 1 .avi file for frameserving and editing. What you want to do is go into capture mode. Under capture menu there is a place where you can check 'enable multi-segment capture' check that. Then, somewhere in that same menu, there is a 'spill drive' option. Open that up, create a couple of spill drives. Set the priority of both to 0 and set the threshold of both to 50 mb. And there you have it. Happy capturing.

Macros

[thegig]

AHHHH, Thanks. I saw earlier posts, but I thought you had to have a separate hardrive to enable this.