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ImageMixer Software Limitation on Video Capture Length?

Author
23 Mar 2006 2:59 PM
samadams_2006
I have the Pixela ImageMixer 1.5 Software for my Sony Camcorder.  I'm
trying to capture video from my Sony Camcorder to my laptop via this
software, and no matter what settings I choose, the capturing process
seems to cut off after capturing 10 minutes of video.  Can this limit
be changed to increase it to 30 minutes or 60 minutes?  I seem to have
plenty of hard-drive space available (20 gigs).

Author
24 Mar 2006 5:26 AM
Gene E. Bloch
On 3/23/2006, samadams_2***@yahoo.ca posted this:
> I have the Pixela ImageMixer 1.5 Software for my Sony Camcorder.  I'm
> trying to capture video from my Sony Camcorder to my laptop via this
> software, and no matter what settings I choose, the capturing process
> seems to cut off after capturing 10 minutes of video.  Can this limit
> be changed to increase it to 30 minutes or 60 minutes?  I seem to have
> plenty of hard-drive space available (20 gigs).

You doubtless have a FAT32 file system. You are running into the limit
of that file system, that no file can be over 4 GBytes in size, and in
fact with some software that is reduced to 2 GB. Coincidentally, that's
how much drive space 10 minutes of AVI video requires.

You need a new computer with Windows XP, and a much larger hard drive
formatted in the NTFS file system - which translates as the New
Technology File System file system :-) - and has no significant
limitation on file size.

Or else, come to think of it, you need a capture program that breaks up
the program into smaller segments. This won't be a problem in editing,
either... An example is Scenalyzer, which is not free, but it's also
not very expensive, and it's very useful.

HTH,
Gino


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