Guys,
When I dump a tape to Premiere, it sometimes stops in the middle of the
capture process and says capture stopped because blank tape was
detected. I've become used to this as a minor glitch that occurs once in
a blue moon. Lately, though, it's been happening a lot. It seems to crop
up
Do you use SP or LP speed on your camera? I only use SP to reduce frame
drops.
It's possible you are getting frame drops from the tape during capture,
but they tend to show up differently in other programs (Vegas lists them
as actual dropped frames rather than dumping the capture).
Just for
I've had that problem before too. Are you using Scene Detect during
capture? That could be part of the problem. It tries to add a few extra
frames in between stop points during batch captures, and it usually fails.
Also it helps if you use the same brand of DV tape stock all the time, as
I am using Scene Detect. If I turn it off, though, won't I have to go in
and split out all the scenes by hand? I haven't noticed a problem with it
mis-detecting scene boundaries, only with it thinking that it's hit blank
tape or something.
I'll try getting more religious about what tape brand I
