Windv made two avi files off one tape.

[drakefamily2]

Windv made 2 files, one 13gb and one around 3gb, off one tape.. How come, i only want one file.

[SingSing]

WinDV saw a period of blank video between the two sessions, and seperated them.

You can stop that by clicking on [config..] then set [Discontinuity treshold (sec)] to 0.

[drakefamily2]

Thanks sounds like a easy fix.

[redwudz]

You can put them back together again by using VirtualDub, along with the Panasonic DV Codec. Select the first part and load it, then select 'Append segment'. Save as 'Direct stream copy'. I usually use VD Mod, but I believe it's similar for the regular VD.

[SingSing]

If you use DVDauthor, it is even simpler.

Add both of them in the same track, and remove the starting chapter point of the second one. The video will play thru both of them seamlessly.

[gadgetguy]

WinDV saw a blank between the two sessions, and seperated them.

You stop that by clicking on [config..] then set [Discontinuity treshold (sec)] to 0.

That's one possibility, the other is the Max AVI size (number of frames). I normally have mine set to 109792 which captures 1 hour and 1 minute and produces a filesize of 13,211,257,856 bytes of Type1 DV-AVI. If what I'm capturing is longer than that, a second file is created.

[drakefamily2]

I only want one file, how big a file can i convert. Don't want to make this conversion any harder than i have to. I'm using Convertxtodvd to convert.

[gadgetguy]

Let's review.
You were given 2 possible reasons why WinDV created 2 files.
1. The continuity threshold was not set to 0.
2. The Max AVI size was set too small. (I gave you what I use as a reference to determine how to set it for your source.)

To elaborate...
To capsfer to a single file using WinDV, set the continuity threshold to 0 and set the Max AVI size to a high enough value to contain the entire duration of the tape.

You were also given suggestions on how to deal with what you've already capsferred so you don't have to do it again.

You can put them back together again by using VirtualDub, along with the Panasonic DV Codec. Select the first part and load it, then select 'Append segment'. Save as 'Direct stream copy'. I usually use VD Mod, but I believe it's similar for the regular VD.

Which part of this didn't answer your question?

[drakefamily2]

That's one possibility, the other is the Max AVI size (number of frames). I normally have mine set to 109792 which captures 1 hour and 1 minute and produces a filesize of 13,211,257,856 bytes of Type1 DV-AVI. If what I'm capturing is longer than that, a second file is created.[/quote]


I reset threshhold to 0, no problem. How big a Maz AVI size do i need to use to capure 2 hour tapes, 200000 big enough?

[gadgetguy]

No.
There are 3600 seconds in an hour so 2 hours is 7200 seconds. At 29.97 frames per second that would mean 215784 frames.

[drakefamily2]

OK thanks, that was what i was looking for. Hopefully the tape will go smoother. Got lots of good advice on the forums and i am grateful.

[gadgetguy]

So, what will you do if the movie is 2 hours and 10 minutes long?

[drakefamily2]

I'm converting 2 hr video tapes, shouldn't be a problem. I set the frames to 220000 so that should cover it. Just burned my first dvd using Covertxdvd. Worked great, no surprises. Thanks again.

[redwudz]

You can set the frames to 1,000,000 if you don't want a limit. I suggested VirtualDub for joining because I use VD Mod to do rough edits and filtering, if needed, when I work with DV. It's a good editor for this and has available a large amount of filters. And it's all freeware.

If you want a little more control over the finished product, you can use VD Mod to frameserve the edited DV directly to an encoder like TMPGEnc encoder and avoid saving an edited version and using extra hard drive space. With TMPGEnc you can adjust the bitrate to fit a DV to a DVD disc and you have much more control over the quality and size of the finished product. Then you author the DVD and add your menus, etc.

When I have VD Mod running, I also save out the audio as a WAV, run that through ffmpeggui to convert the audio to AC3 format sound. I combine this with the encoded MPEG-2 during the authoring stage. This gives me better compatibility than the MPEG-1 Layer2 that TMPGEnc produces by default.

Just something to keep in mind if you want to have more control and graduate up from a all-in-one converter at some point.

[gadgetguy]

You can set the frames to 1,000,000 if you don't want a limit.

That's not enough if you're doing a 10 hour capsfer. :P

[drakefamily2]

Sounds like some good options, will keep in mind, thanks