Capture Stops after 15 minutes

[HobokenBob]

I just got Premiere so I'm a bit new to it....

When I capture video from my vcr it stops after about 15 minutes, or about 27,000 frames. I don't have the timer on.
The video still keeps playing but it stops capturing.

Thanks,

Bob
NJ USA

Also, can anyone recomend a good book for learning Premiere? I understand Premiere well enough, but just need help with things like the above.

 

[LRSmith]

What OS are you running? Win98 and before may be the problem due to file size limitations.

How much harddrive space is available?

Any background programs running?

 

[HobokenBob]

I have XP with a Pentium 4 2.66 GHz and 1 GB of Ram. (I just bought it last summer)

I have an extra hard disk I am using just for capturing video - 114 GB - which is empty.
(My other hard Drive is 80GB)
I have a TV Wonder VE card.

I'm not running anything else while I capture.

I tried different setups using Video for Windows - 320x240, 640x480 & 720x480.
(by the way, how do I know which setting to use if I am gonna burn a DVD?)

Under Scratch Disks and Device Control the settings are - Captured Movies in my 114 GB folder, Video Previews in the same hard Drive and Audio Previews in my C drive.

It will stop after 4GB of Capturing, or about 27,000 frames.

Thanks for any help,

Bob
NJ USA

 

[WizyWyg]

Is your drive FAT32 or NTFS?

 

[WizyWyg]

If its the 4gb limit everyone knows about on Windows machines:

http://nickyguides.digital-digest.com/avi4gb.htm

http://realforum.real.com/realforum/msg07620.html

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Graphics/Q_20578979.html

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/100d2.htm

 

[HobokenBob]

I have an NTFS drive.

Bob

 

[WizyWyg]

Sounds like the card you are using is putting the 4gb limitation. You may have to contact the manufacturer to confirm this.

 

[HobokenBob]

I used Win CD to capture and it captured just fine. I wanna use Premiere tho cause I figure it would capture the sound & video better.

Bob

 

[HobokenBob]

I found the following on a website:

You can use a codec which uses reference files like the Canopus DV codec (splits the file into smaller segments) even if you use FAT32, but a nicer solution is to use the newer AVI 2.0 codec and NTFS (which means Win2K or XP) and you will not see this limitation since both technologies do not have the 4GB filesize limit.

I can now capture an entire film (about 25GB) via Premiere 6 using the Microsoft DV codec (AVI 2.0) using WinXP

QUESTION: Where can I find that codec? I'm searching everywhere.

Thanks

Bob

 

[LRSmith]

I think you get this codec with their latest media player.

Go to Microsoft's home page and download the Media Player 9 series---you may need to download their latest directX drivers too---kind of lost the thread on that one.

Start with

http://www.windowsupdate.com