Hello, bjmjpl!

The capture card you're using, I've not come across that brand before. Nonetheless, here's my two cents worth(copper coins are worthless in Australia these days, though! LOL). I'm guessing that you're doing a bulk capture, i.e., capturing the entire content of a tape in one "gulp" (burp!) Sorry, just adding a bit of levity there! but seriously, try just taking half-to-one-hour at a time, processing it, tuck it away in a file folder, then take the next half-to-one-hour's worth of content, working, piecemeal, as it were, and it may make your computer's job a bit easier. Capturing and editing video is resource-heavy, it puts a huge burdon on the computer to process all that content. I suggested half-to-one-hour, but more practically, watch the capture screen for any "breaks" in content and end the capture at that point. You can then "play around" with that fresh capture(edit it, clean it up) or just store the capture under a tentative title and edit it later. Basically, it's better to have several small easy-to-handle "grabs" than one large resource-hungry file.

Cheers!

Neil.

ok cool thanks but i sometimes it can handle it fine and i reboot and i bought this monster machine but ill give that a whirl thx! thank you

Canopus makes high end analog video capture devices. Believe that they also manufacture the ones with time base correction for professional use. You have one that connects to the pc with firewire. See this link: http://www.amazon.com/Grass-Valley-Canopus-77010150100-Converter/dp/B00030ATTO .

The output is dv which is about 13 GB per hour. You need a large hard drive indeed for 35 tapes. This unit does not capture copyrighted tapes.

More than likely a noisy tape triggered the macrovision flag either in this unit or in powerdirector to stop recording. The fix on the software would be to use WMM.

If using a laptop with a usb to firewire connector then it is possible that that the pc went either to the standby mode or to sleep shutting off the particular usb port before your 6 hours was up. You can set the screensaver and power saving modes to whatever you want.

Quote: Canopus makes high end analog video capture devices. Believe that they also manufacture the ones with time base correction for professional use. You have one that connects to the pc with firewire. See this link: http://www.amazon.com/Grass-Valley-Canopus-77010150100-Converter/dp/B00030ATTO .

The output is dv which is about 13 GB per hour. You need a large hard drive indeed for 35 tapes. This unit does not capture copyrighted tapes.

More than likely a noisy tape triggered the macrovision flag either in this unit or in powerdirector to stop recording. The fix on the software would be to use WMM.

If using a laptop with a usb to firewire connector then it is possible that that the pc went either to the standby mode or to sleep shutting off the particular usb port before your 6 hours was up. You can set the screensaver and power saving modes to whatever you want.

very interesting - this may be it - for 6 hours i can record to a 25gb file - i have a few 2tb harddrives sso good to go there nad then i am just scanning them and deleting most



i have one letterman program i am trying to save and it keeps blowing up - dont think it is a macrovision issue but could be noisey tape that creates that error not sure - but what is the fix to use wmm mean exactly - sorry noob thank you! thank you

Try this: Put in a tape that you know is noisy and adjust the tracking to be off so you get a signal but a bad one. Try to capture. Either the Canopus or PowerDirector will stop capturing.

If it is the canpus then you can add a stabilizer/macrovision remover black box sold many years ago for $10 between the vcr and canopus to stop the false triggering.

If it is powerdirector then use Windows Movie Maker instead. There are other capture software that may be less sensitive to bad or noisy video.

Let us know what you find.