capture keeps crapping out at five minutes…please help

[Micah Ginn]

i am capturing it as one file. i haven’t changed my settings in forever. No need to. Been shooting with the same camera since 2004 (panasonic dvx-100A), and the only new variable introduced this time around was a DV tape shot in someone else’s camera. However, I have used tapes from this other camera before with no problems.

the file captures at a ridiculous size (300 gigs for five minutes) and freezes up my computer when the scratch disk suddenly finds itself stuffed.

[Bergsandwich]

i’m having this exact same problem, but with a bigger drive- final cut captures about 5 minutes of footage before filling up my entire scratch disk and crashing, then i have to reboot my computer. have you had any luck fixing this on your system?

[Ashley Harvey]

I too am having this problem – just started yesterday in fact. I am running a G4 933mhz with FCP HD 4.5

The system will successfully capture any clip under about 7 mins or so – if I go over that – the incoming pic on the capture window freezes and the capture will dump with a complaint of dropped frames. Funny thing is, if I tell it not to abort on dropped frames, it will continue running, and come back and start capturing again in a few minutes – minus audio sync and all the video that went by during the glitch. Sometimes the glitched files show up as the “AV” files that are HUGE. The successfully captured files (under 7 mins or so) appear fine – any ideas? Witht the consistancy of the ‘under 7 minutes’ thing, its almost like some buffer gets full or something. I have tried different drives, checking settings, tossing prefs – with no change.

The only thing that has changed since I successfully ran the rig last is that I let the big blue apple do a sytem security fix – maybe that was a bad choice?

I anxiously await any feedback anyone gets and I will do same.