Stephen Mann
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I’m like John. I haven’t opened Sound Forge in months and prefer to use Vegas for all my mixer functions. Vegas was originally a soundtrack editor.
Steve Mann
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A classic case of a work man blaming his tools 🙂
We’ve all been there. How many times have we used CTRL-Z? (My “Z” key is getting worn out), and how many times have we raided the recycle bin to say “Whew, missed that bullet”?
I can sympathize with the OP, but, he did do it to himself and it’s unfair to blame Vegas.
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It’s been asked for before, but I’ve never seen a solution.
But, until someone writes one, you can try using a free PC oscilloscope that uses your sound card for the input, and do a screen capture of the waveform then import that into Vegas.Here’s one:
https://www.zeitnitz.de/Christian/waveio?mid=103HOWEVER!
I have never used a PC-based oscilloscope, so do this at your own risk.Steve Mann
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Do you have “Abort Capture on Dropped Frames” turned on?
Find that (it varies in different capture programs) and turn it off then see what happens.
However,
ANY dropped frames is unacceptable. Your camera spits the data through the firewire at a constant rate (25 mb/sec, or 3.6 mB/sec). Its destination is your hard disk drive. If something in the data path clogs up the flow, then you will get dropped frames. Most of the time the problem is that the hard disk can’t write at that rate because it’s seriously fragmented or the processor may be busy doing something else and can’t get around to servicing the I/O protocol fast enough. Especially on systems with only one hard-disk drive. Antivirus programs frequently get in the way of a Firewire data transfer. A bad Firewire cable may be noisy, corrupting a data frame (AKA Data Packet), resulting in a random dropped frame. I’ve never seen dirty heads in the camera cause dropped frames. Data dropouts, yes, but not dropped frames. Similar but not the same.
In normal practice you do NOT want to turn off the “Abort Capture on Dropped Frames” or whatever your favorite capture program calls it. As I said above, ANY dropped frames is unacceptable.
Your video media should be on a separate drive from your operating system – not a separate partition (because that’s on the same drive).
For capturing DV tape, I always use scenalyzer live (https://www.scenalyzer.com/)
For HDV tape I use HDV Split (https://www.videohelp.com/tools/HDVSplit).RAID is unnecessary in my experience – at least for speed considerations. I routinely capture DV tapes through a dual-core laptop into an external hard disk plugged into a USB 2.0 port and never a dropped frame. 5400 RPM drives should be avoided because their maximum sustained write speed is not much higher (in general) than the DV data flow, but I have used 5400 RPM drives with mixed success.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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NTSC?FAT??
I can’t blame lack of sleep on that one.But, does it stop in the same place?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Strictly bit for bit copy. Same as HDV and any other digital camera format.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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“Does the camera really support HDV capture mode?”
No. the Sony DCR-VX2100 is DV/AVI only. Not HDV.
I always used Scenalyzer to copy my video from my DV cameras.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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You can also try scenalyzer to capture.
Does it stop in the same place each time?
Is your disk NTSC or FAT?Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Like Mike said, overheating is the first thing that comes to mind. Does it fail at the same point in both PC’s? If yes, I would suspect bad media.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com