Dropped Frames ... or not?

Frenchy wrote on 11/6/2003, 10:36 AM
This happened to me late last night, so my memory of exactly what was in the dialog box is fuzzy...

System:
Vegas 4.0d (build 205)
Dell P3-600
Win 98SE
<edit> I know this is a dinosaur... maybe it'll rain $$$ in 2004 ;) <edit>
384 MB RAM
30 GB system drive
40 GB media drive
120 GB external media drive (via IEEE 1394)
Capturing D8 via OHCI compliant 1394 card
NO recent hardware changes

capturing 10 mins of DV from Sony D8 camera (TRV 310) via vidcap to external HDD, 55% empty

No recent (8 months +) capture problems

Problem (or is it?): After capture, a pop-up dialog box reports that "dropped frames were detected during capture". After closing that box, in the "main" vidcap window, on the middle right, where it reports "dropped frames", "capture duration", and "current location", 0 dropped frames are reported!! I quickly view the video, and can find no "obvious" dropouts. (remember, this is rather late at night...)

Questions: 1) Has anyone else seen this? 2) Which do I believe?, and 3) Is there an app or technique which can scan my already captured video to report if there are/are not dropped frames?

Any help? thanks

Frenchy



Comments

Frenchy wrote on 11/7/2003, 9:30 AM
-bump-

no one else has experienced this?

oh well..
Grazie wrote on 11/7/2003, 9:33 AM
Yes - 2 days ago: "Droppped Frames : 1" when finished, reported back "Capture Succesful No dropped Frames" - go figure . . .I just carry on regardless . . . . not professional but life is too short . . for me anyway . .

G
thrillcat wrote on 11/7/2003, 12:04 PM
Could it have dropped the first few or last few frames, when capture was engaging or disengaging? This could be the issue, which, really, would be a non issue.
Frenchy wrote on 11/7/2003, 5:05 PM
Grazie: I agree, I'm not losing any sleep over it... more of a question over something I haven't seen yet. Seems a bit of an inconsistency, that's all.

thrillcat: It could be the first/last few frames. I have no way of knowing, so it probably is a non-issue. NBD

thanks
DGrob wrote on 11/7/2003, 7:37 PM
Yeah, seems a mute point that Sony/SF needs to clean up. Have seen it, have ignored it. DGrob
Leviathan wrote on 11/7/2003, 9:02 PM
Seen it,

Here is my theory (yeah just what you all want to hear...a theory). I mainly edit people's old home videos, and have had this happen many times. I think I have figured out why (in my case at least) I find this happens whenever there is a blank space on the tape, like between camera shots. So I figure Vegas sees the blank space as dropped frames, even though technically there wasn't any. There, that's my theory. Hope it helps explain a bit.

Sincerely, Leviathan