Re: Recapture

Are you changing the default directory structure (and name) that Velocity is creating for you? If so, this will cause a crash. Let Velocity create it's new directories and LET it put the files where it wants. Replace will typically work.

A dirty little secret of the Velocity line is that batch recapture has never worked correctly. Not from their earliest versions of the product line (Perception RT) all the way up to VelocityHD.

It has to do with a fundamentally flawed treatment of timecode by the software and a lack of understanding of the purpose of timecode by their software people. Even if you get Velocity to capture then replace without crashing, many of your clips will replace with incorrect in/out points on the timeline. Some will only be off by 15 frames or so, but others can be off by several seconds. There's no consistency to the error. I've had long discussions with their software development people over the years as a beta tester about how timecode SHOULD be treated...which as an absolute time locator for each video/audio clip.

Their software people believed that timecode should ONLY be a reference to the in/out point that an editor creates within a timeline. Which meant that if you change the location of a clip on your drive, more often than not Velocity will lose track of the timecode within the clip itself and "reset" the clip back to it's beginning point. That means if you have a 20 minute clip and your in-point on the timeline is at timecode 19 minutes...then you move the clip to a different drive and re-associate or replace it on the same timeline, Velocity thinks it should "reset" the "in" point back to 0. So your clip would be off by 19 minutes! The crazy thing is that this doesn't ALWAYS occur. It seems that it happens more often with clips residing on tracks other than track 1.

I argued and pleaded with their development team (along with a few other long-time users) for years before finally giving up. They just didn't understand the point of timecode, which is to absolutely identify the location of a clip to within 1/30th of a second.

The best way to go from low-rez to high-rez is to delete your low-res footage (or off-load it to a back-up drive if you're a nervous nelly like me) then re-capture from your original batch capture lists to the higher resolution.

If drive space is an issue...then you're in for a long and painful trip.





Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
www.videomi.com