Introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1932, 8mm film has seen quite the evolution during its lifespan. If the stop botton disappeared then that means that the recording has stopped.8mm film has been around for a long time. This seems to be camcorder dependent since it does not happen with all camcorders.Īlso, I prefer to capture in short 15 minute segments instead of one long capture. After all there is a lot of overhead program that has to run before the actual recording can start.Īlso if there are gaps or blank spots on the tape the program may also stop recording since it thinks it has reached the end of the tape. The slight delay in picking up the signal is common with all capture devices/programs as far as I know. Of course this means that there will be a bit of garbage video at the start of the recording but that can be easily trimmed away. Then start the recording and when the program has detected the video signal then I continue the play on the camcorder. What I usually do is to start the tape playing and put it on pause. It is playing in the camera but it takes a while before it gets shown in the EVD3 window. One thing that still bugs me is that the EVD3 does not pick up the beginning of the video signal right away. I've got many VCR and Hi8 tapes to convert. I felt pretty dumb for not seeing that it makes the mpg file (without the need to Export), but it looks like I had a good reason for getting confused. Thanks for sticking with me to shed light on my misunderstanding. This action resets the Preferences default capture location to their setting, not to what I had set as the Desktop.
So I have to constantly go back and try again. I thought the destination was set for my Desktop, and since I did not see the final result there, I would then select the Export option.Īll of this stems from the problem that Roxio does not seem to be able to detect the beginning of the video signal very well to start its ability to capture. It will not retain my Desktop capture setting in Preferences. I hope Roxio will fix this default capture output problem. I looked there and found all of the mpg videos that I had been digitizing.
However, my path is C:\User\username\ My Videos\Easy VHS to DVD\Captured Videos".
I looked for the default capture location that Roxio has "C:\User\username\ Videos\Easy VHS to DVD\Captured Videos" but I don't have that exact path. I constantly have to go back and reset it to the Desktop. One of the problems with EVD is that it will not retain the changes I make in the default capture location. This is why I did not see it on the Desktop and assumed that the next step was to Export it. But it seems that while I am fiddling with trying to get the video signal to show up on the monitor, my 'Desktop' capture location changed back to the default. I would change the Preference's capture location from the default "C:\User\username\Videos\Easy VHS to DVD\Captured Videos" to be my Desktop. Any Export of the mpg video to another format will not improve the video very much if at all, there really is no reason to do another rendering of the video You don't seem to understand that after you have captured the video to your hard drive you have a video file in the mpg format. Yes, I have used EVD3 (as well as EVD and several other programs) to capture dozens of videos from analog camcorders.