im having trouble cutting out a small chunk of audio/video

[klumbz]

hi,
i just recorded my daughters school play, and after about 1 minute into the tape there's about 40 seconds of black video and no audio. im trying to cut it out but a few seconds into the "black" i get this error.

audio samples ------- to ------- could not be read in the source. the file may be currupted

anyone?

[Josef Kneht]

Coud you clarify please what software do you use and what kind of file (mpg, avi, dv) you are trying to cut?

[klumbz]

sorry,
the program is virtual dub
and the format is avi

[gadgetguy]

How did you get the video from the tape to the computer? Does this black section appear when playing the tape in the camcorder?

[klumbz]

fire wire
and the black spot is on the tape too

[guns1inger]

It could be a corruption on the tape, but more likely it is a place where you stop shooting, then restarted after rewinding/fastforwarding, and the time stamp got screwed. Try setting your transfer software to transfer by scene, and it should (hopefully) transfer up to the blank, skip to the next scene, and transfer the next section. You can then join them, rather then try to edit bits out.

[klumbz]

so i probably can't cut the bad spot out of this capture
and i should just recapture and just not capture that spot?

[guns1inger]

That may be the bestter solution. Before you do that, try scanning for bad frames in virtualdub to see what it says

[mattso]

Both your post and this tool were up the top of the lists as I'm browsing right now, maybe you can help each other out?? :P

[klumbz]

ok, i opened the avi and everything was greyed out except for for the input file button the file path, and the file file status which says"file reading error".

also, i snipped a few pieces from the end of the file,and ran it into the program and it gave all the info on that piece, and it said that the format said the file was dvsd.

is that some kind of compresion filter?

i captured with roxio 7.5 and set it to capure in dvd quality.

that's probably where i messed up.

thanks everyone
steve.