• VEGAS Pro

  First HDV Capture – M2T file Question

  Posted by Rob Bond on April 28, 2007 at 9:50 pm

  Folks,

  I’m just starting to mess around with HDV (Sony HDR-HC1 camera) editing in Vegas v7. When using the internal capture utility (scene detection **OFF**) the capture produce four files, where based on my DV (AVI) experience I expected only one file.

  Is there a file size limit for m2t files that is forcing the capture utility to generate four m2t files? (of sizes 233, 1378, 3460, and 6883 MB). These break points appear to correspond to the major Date/Time Code transitions. Is there some way to prevent breaking the capture into multiple files? As noted above, scene detection is off.

  Also to provide some context, these are family videos, so there will be on minor editing and some titling done in Vegas (hence no real reason to break the capture into pieces)

  Also, the capture utility is a bit funky. When it completes capturing the tape it shows in the preview windows that the tape has stopped (as expected), but apparently you need to press the stop button in the capture utility window to force the application to close the m2t files written to the HDD (otherwise the files have temporary names, hitting stop results in the file name changing to match the clip name you specified in the capture utility). This seems odd from a human factors perspective (i.e., not intuitive at all).

  Thanks!

  –Rob

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