Where did my frames go?

Post by **SoCal Chris** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 3:37 am

I am using Movie Studio to edit avi files of old 8mm home movies and then burn DVDs with DVD Architect 2. The problem I am having is that when I import the avi file from my WorkPrinter capture into Movie Studio I end up with missing frames that show up as black areas in the movie.

If I play the avi file in Windows Media Player, they play fine with no missing frames. But both a preview of the imported file and timeline version have missing frames.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening or how to correct it?

Post by **VideoFred** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:30 am

Chris,

How do you capture? With Cinecap? What codec?
Virtualdub can scan your avi for errors.

Fred.

Post by **SoCal Chris** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 4:08 pm

Yes I am using Cinecap for the capture and it works great. I don't remember which Codec I used for these captures (I will have to double-check my notes). The strange thing is if I simply play the avi file that Cinecap outputs, everything looks fine. Its only when I import into Vegas Movie Maker that I lose frames (anywhere from 1 to 5 seconds) at various spots in the film.

Post by **mattias** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 4:30 pm

sound like you need to use a codec which compresses every frame, rather than using some delta scheme. divx, sorenson, cinepak and similar are no good.

/matt