Thanks for your reply, Barry.
I'm not sure I understand your reply.
I have many VHS tapes to digitize with each having different lengths of recordings on them so it would take a lot to time to use your suggested method if I understand it correctly.
Is there not a Power Director setting to automatically stop the capture if it encounters a section of 'blank' tape ? I had hoped the DV Parameters-DV Auto Stop setting(s) would do this.
Thanks