I've tried capturing my analog video through a Hollywood DV Bridge in the default "recommended" format, the DV-AVI format, and the High Quality NTSF format (which isn't supposed to have a file size limit), and each time my capture will just stop after several minutes. The last attempt using HQ NTSF quit after over 20 minutes of capture. It's driving me crazy! All I'm trying to do is transfer my old VHS-C cassettes onto CD or DVD. Any ideas anyone?

It's your hard drive file system that determines the maximum files size, not
the type of file.... is your hard drive FAT, FAT32 or NTFS? If it's FAT32
then you have a 4 GB file size limit, about 20 minutes of Digital Video file
size.
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PapaJohn
www.papajohn.org


"Dan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've tried capturing my analog video through a Hollywood DV Bridge in the
default "recommended" format, the DV-AVI format, and the High Quality NTSF
format (which isn't supposed to have a file size limit), and each time my
capture will just stop after several minutes. The last attempt using HQ NTSF
quit after over 20 minutes of capture. It's driving me crazy! All I'm trying
to do is transfer my old VHS-C cassettes onto CD or DVD. Any ideas anyone?

Thanks for the reply PJ. I have a NTFS hard dive with 102 GB of free space. I successfully created a DVD last night using my Roxio 6 DVD creator software, but the final product was jittery and occasionally froze up, even on my Mitsubishi DVD player downstairs. First I dubbed my VHS-C content from my old JVC camcorder through my Dazzle DV Hollywood Bridge into my JVC MiniDV camcoder. Then using Roxio I captured the entire hour long video onto my hard drive. Needless to say this was very time consuming. The icing on the cake was the nearly 2 hours it took for the Roxio software to render and finally burn the DVD. On my next attempt, I will capture smaller segments into clips for manageability. I still have the dubbed content on the MiniDV cassette, so I'm thinking I'll give Movie Maker 2 another shot. On my last attempt with MM2, when I clicked "Finish" after capturing my video, a dialog came up saying "please wait..." but the progress bar showed no movement. After about 30 minutes or so I gave up and clicked Cancel, which in turn deleted my captured video. Was the MM2 software actually rendering that analog video? If so the little hard drive indicator light showed little if any activity during that half hour. That's when I decided to dub the video into my DV camcorder and use Roxio. The scary thing is that I still have 5 or 6 hour + VHC-C cassettes I need to burn to disc before I can sell my old JVC camcorder! There's got to be a better way! Please help!!

Rendering is a CPU intensive process.... watch it using Task Manager and if
you see no progress (after a reasonable amount of time - a few minutes to
maybe 10 minutes) and CPU usage isn't high, then it's time to say it's not
rendering and cancel the process.

The reasons for it not finishing, or for problems with the process, are many
and differ by the computer. All I can suggest is the full problem-solving
section of www.papajohn.org
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PapaJohn


"Dan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:99845E2D-6090-43A5-ADB5-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks for the reply PJ. I have a NTFS hard dive with 102 GB of free
space. I successfully created a DVD last night using my Roxio 6 DVD creator
software, but the final product was jittery and occasionally froze up, even
on my Mitsubishi DVD player downstairs. First I dubbed my VHS-C content from
my old JVC camcorder through my Dazzle DV Hollywood Bridge into my JVC
MiniDV camcoder. Then using Roxio I captured the entire hour long video onto
my hard drive. Needless to say this was very time consuming. The icing on
the cake was the nearly 2 hours it took for the Roxio software to render and
finally burn the DVD. On my next attempt, I will capture smaller segments
into clips for manageability. I still have the dubbed content on the MiniDV
cassette, so I'm thinking I'll give Movie Maker 2 another shot. On my last
attempt with MM2, when I clicked "Finish" after capturing my video, a dialog
came up saying "please wait..." but the progress bar showed no movement.
After about 30 minutes or so I gave up and clicked Cancel, which in turn
deleted my captured video. Was the MM2 software actually rendering that
analog video? If so the little hard drive indicator light showed little if
any activity during that half hour. That's when I decided to dub the video
into my DV camcorder and use Roxio. The scary thing is that I still have 5
or 6 hour + VHC-C cassettes I need to burn to disc before I can sell my old
JVC camcorder! There's got to be a better way! Please help!!