Recordings have sections from other projects chopped into the middle

Nick-Newby-Ricci wrote on 4/28/2024, 2:30 PM

I would greatly appreciate some help with problem I'm having with "Rescue your video tapes!".

I have been working through a pile of old 90 minute camcorder tapes. Everything appears to work as it should. I create a new project for each recording. Unfortunately however, I'm (consistently) finding random sections from previous projects are appearing in my recordings. There will literally be a few random minutes from different projects popping up. This is just going to be too difficult to edit so I'm resigned to re-recording everything but I obviously need to resolve this issue first. Can anyone shed any light on a possible cause?

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AAProds wrote on 4/28/2024, 7:37 PM

@Nick-Newby-Ricci

That sounds nasty and a I can't offer an explanation. However, I doubt that you will need to recapture your tapes.

It is not possible to have bits of captures embedded in other capture files, so I suspect it's a glitch with Video Easy's importing of the files.

All your captures will be in big(ish) files with the MXV file extension (or perhaps MPG, if you used the MPEG/DVD capture options). If you can't see the file extension, open a folder (any one will do), go to folder options, and on the View tab. Untick "hide extensions of known file types".

I suggest the following:

-Find your captures and as a trial, copy a few of them into another folder (preferably on another drive). Do not copy any other files eg no HDPs, HOs or MVPs.

-Start up Video Easy, choose "Create a new video project", then choose "select files from computer". Import a couple of your copied MXVs and see how you get on editing those.

All my forum comments are based on or refer to my System 1.

My struggle is over! I built my (now) system 2 in 2011 when DV was king and MPEG 2 was just coming onto the scene and I needed a more powerful system to cope. Since then we've advanced to MP4 and to bigger and bigger resolutions. I was really suffering, not so much in editing (with proxies) but in encoding, which just took ages. A video, with Neat Video noise reduction applied, would encode at 12% of film speed. My new system 1 does the same job at 160% of film speed. Marvellous. I'm keeping my old system as a capture station for analogue video tapes and DV.

System 1

Windows 11 v23H2 severely modified by Openshell and ExplorerPatcher

Power supply: 850W Cooler Master (should have got modular)

CPU: Intel i7 13700K running at 3400mhz, cooled by a Kraken 2x140mm All In One liquid cooler.

RAM: 64gb (2x32gb sticks) G.Skill "Ripjaws" DDR4 3200Mhz

GPU 1: iGPU UHD 770

GPU 2: NVidia RTX 3060Ti Windforce 8gb

C drive: NVME 500gb

Various other SSD and HDDs.

Monitor: 27"/68cm Samsung, 2560 x 1440, 43 pixels/cm.

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

Magix Video Easy version 7.0.1.145

System 2

(Still in use for TV and videotape capture)

Windows 10 v22H2

CPU: i5-750 at 2670mhz with 12gb RAM

Onboard IEEE1394 (Firewire) port

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4770 (512mb) which is ignored by MEP

Hard drives: C Drive 256gb SSD, various other HDDs.

Monitor: Dell 22"/56cm, 1680x1050, 35 pixels/cm

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

VPX 12

emmrecs wrote on 4/29/2024, 3:30 AM

@Nick-Newby-Ricci

I can offer one possible explanation for what you are experiencing, I think.

Do you create separate folders to save the imported video files, one folder for each mvp project? If not, and all your video files are saved in the same location and so accessible to ALL your projects, because they are very likely to have names that are very similar, if not the same, it is possible that RYVT is accessing the "wrong" file and so playing it.

(Although I don't use RYVT, this is something I discovered very early in my video editing "career": always keep each project's source video files totally separate from those of any other project.)

HTH

Jeff
Forum Moderator

Win 10 Pro 64 bit, Intel i7 Quad Core 6700K @ 4GHz, 32 GB RAM, NVidia GTX 1660TI and Intel HD530 Graphics, MOTU 8-Pre f/w audio interface, VPX, MEP, Music Maker, PhotoStory Deluxe, Photo Manager Deluxe, Xara 3D Maker 7, Samplitude Pro X7 Suite, Reaper, Adobe Audition 3, CS6 and CC, 2 x Canon HG10 cameras, 1 x Canon EOS 600D, Akaso EK7000 Pro Action Cam

Nick-Newby-Ricci wrote on 4/29/2024, 5:07 PM

Thanks to you both for your suggestions (and reassurance). I will try these and report back.