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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
Update on the project.
I got the Canopus from Scott (THANK YOU!!) and went to work. The Canopus functions as advertised, but Imovie and IDVD would only copy about 2 secs worth of tape before stopping. I bought and downloaded Premiere Elements 9 (frustrating backstory there) and it will copy, but not without drama. Every time it detects a hiccup in the tape it stops capturing. These tapes were made 20 years ago and are copies of 16mm film, some of which was shot in the mid-1930s, so there are a lot of hiccups especially near the beginning and the end. The capture stops and I have to try to start it again after the hiccup. I'm getting a crash course in basic editing stitching the various clips together. The first 110 minute tape took 6 hours. The second took 4 hours. It looks like three hours per tape is the best I'm going to be able to do and I have 10 tapes. The good news is my transitions are smoother than those on the originals, so you can't really tell. Three down, 7 to go.
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Video editing software recognizes when the camera stops/starts and will break the captured footage into clips. It assumes the start/stop is an edit point.
But the capture should not stop.
Sounds to me like it's dropping frames.
Meaning the hard drive that you are dumping the footage to can't write as fast as the data is coming in.
Make sure Abort Capture On Dropped Frames preference is not enabled.