Capturing a lot of footy

[Matt Dibble]

Well im getting my new computer real soon (its on its way ) but for now i need to amke this one work.

When capturing a lot of footy (i got 35 minutes at XW a couple weeks ago) if i just capture it all in a row (with vegas.. so its uncompressed avi) it all skips like crazy. Is there any way when capturing a lot of footy to make it not skip? if i do anywhere from like 5-10 minutes of capturing it doesnt skip at all but if i get anywhere above that its unreliable. As a temp. solution i captured 5 minutes of that XW footy at a time.. then closed vegas' capturing thing and reopened it. It worked, but it should be able to just capture the footy. Any suggestions?

 

[Brian Boston]

Im not sure if you mean your just capturing like the whole portion of the tape at once (which is a waste of space), or if your going threw the tape and getting clips out but im going to take it as your just capping a whole portion but...

You probably need more ram in your computer, but theres an easier solution. Since your going to be skipping threw the footage anyway to find the clips you need, watch the footage (tv makes it easier), enable timecode on the camera and write down when you want to start capturing and when you want to stop for a clip. Im not sure if they have this in Vegas but in Premiere you can use batch capture, you type all the times in and the file name you want and hit capture and it will go through your tape and capture the clips for you and makes it super easy.

But theres a downside, if you played back footage and you left a blank spot inbetween sections on the tape your timecode restarts and using this method gets complicated and might be useless.

 

[Matt Dibble]

yeah i just capture whole portions (generally) then i go back and delete the useless ones when they are on my computer.. i search there.

and it could be the ram its got 512 i know the standard is up to like a gig now

 

[Brian Boston]

Nah standard is still 512...

 

[honga]

really??? i thought it was a gig as well so i went and got one....what a moron

 

[Brian Boston]

512 is what usually comes with a computer and is recommended to run most applications. To get top performance a gig or more is recomended.

 

[Travis House]

My awesome self runs 128 or 256. I forget. I can still run everything I want too with respects to video editing and stuff.

Its a hassle though

 

[Matt Dibble]

damn dude. I remember upgrading to 512 it was so awesome. Everything worked so much better. haha. Well my new computer came today except no one was here to sign for it. its in dunkirk and we are gonna pick it up in about an hour... so happy

 

[skadityska]

a uncompressed avi on a normal computer (not too fast, just normal) will always be pretty much skippy.

 

[brandon kilbury]

uncompressed avis work on my computer fine and mine is an old stock dell...

i get weird problems with video sometimes that annoy me, like a while back .avis just stopped working completely for no reason, i figured it out after a few days but it drove me nuts

 

[Brian Boston]

a uncompressed avi on a normal computer (not too fast, just normal) will always be pretty much skippy.

Shouldnt be unless your clogged up with spyware and gross stuff.

 

[CodyChirichiello]

My computer came with 1.99 Gigs of RAM.