Analogic-Digital capture dropped frames 1

[Fuzer]

Hi everybody!
While I'm capturing videos from my VCR, lots of frames are constantly lost due to the tapes old-age. I'd like to know if there is any way, using adobe premiere 6.5 or pro, to mark the position of these lost frames. I use a DATAVIDEO DAC-100 converter and when it reports a lost frame, it seems to lose sync and at least two seconds of the captured video are lost. Until now, I have to search and correct one by one, which is taking me a hell of a job.

Thanks

 

[Akribie]

If you capture using Scenalyzer Live with the optical scene detect switched on, you should get a new clip for each usable segment and a separate clip for each dropped bit. Easy then to dump the dropped bits and butt joint the rest. Not ideal, but probably as good as you can do unless trying a Time Base Corrector is a possibility for you.

Worth downloading and trying (free) SC Live to see if you like it - lots do.

http://www.scenalyzer.com

 

[Houten]

I am in exactly the same situation, using a DAC-100 and trying to read old video tapes in order to produce some DVD's. Very time consuming. I have tried the scenalyzer software. Indeed it saves an awful lot of time.
Thanks for the suggestion Akribie.