I recently downloaded and installed HDVSplit since Premiere can't do scene detection with my XHA1. When I open the program and begin to do capture, it'll run a little less than a second before stopping and flashing a notice that it has stopped receiving information from the camera. At one point it ran for about 45 secs before the program simply crashed. I'm able to capture video just fine from that camera into Premiere, so I know it's not my cable or connection.

I'm running an Intel Quad Core at 2.4GHz, 4GB of Ram, and 2TB of SATA RAID 0 as my capture drive.

Any ideas on fixing the problem?

Have you tried splitting an already captured .m2t file?

Is it just me, or is it crazy that a free utility can do a better job of capturing scene detections than an $800 one?

I have never had an issue with capturing off of my XH A1's into HDVSplit (even in Vista - lol).

If you have any issues, I would get a fresh copy of HDVSplit and remove/delete the old one. Also... If you have another pc to test with ??? - that would let you know if your registry or something else is corrupt.

Yeah, I just tried it again this morning and it died on me again after the first 45 seconds of capture... also, is it normal for Windows to throw up the warning that it's not a recognized program security certificate every time I open it? Usually I would see that once when I install the program and then never see it again. But I see it every time I open the program. It was installed by the IT staff at my work so I'm not certain they installed it properly. I'll see if they'll uninstall it and re-install it for me.

Hi David,

Did they Install it as "Administrator"?

For all users? And how are the drives for video set up?

My best,

Mike

I'm guessing they didn't install it for my username... I've found that half my Adobe suite, all the Microsoft Office products, the DVD BURNER OF ALL THINGS, and several other random software products didn't get properly installed in this computer with the right permissions.

As far as the drives go, I've got a 500GB IDE PATA drive as my OS/Programs drive (they made the call to put my DVD burner on the 4th SATA port instead of the OS drive--very poor decision if you ask me) and then three 750GB SATA drives in a RAID-0 for my video drive.

Hi David,

That would likely be a problem with some types of setups.

You might ask your administrator to allow your drives and programs be freely accessible to the editing applications. It sort of only makes sense.

My best.

Mike