HD Capture ish

I am capturing HD through firewire and a HD JVC Camera. Ussually it capture fine but lately it has been only capturing 00:00 to 00:15 seconds of each clip; and some clips are over a minute long. I have open hard drive space and I am not capturing to an external hard drive. Any suggestions?

I can tell you lately many capture posts have been because of issues with some firewire connction and in combination with upgrading OSX and FC. I can't help you with your brand of camera but I have had plenty of capture issues over the last month. I have had an issue with my Sony V1U HDV stopping every 1-2-3 or 4 minutes almost on the exact minute frame in random patterns and I'm not sure it is over. I'm going to re-format my edit bay when I receive the new FSC2 next month and cross my fingers it all works. Did you just update OSX or FC?
Z1&V1user

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<![LOG[Property PHASE is now = CUSTOM]LOG]!><time="08:29:38.000+000" date="03-19-2014" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1" thread="" file="LiteTouch">
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<![LOG[LTICopyScripts processing completed successfully.]LOG]!><time="08:29:43.000+000" date="03-19-2014" component="LTICopyScripts" context="" type="1" thread="" file="LTICopyScripts">
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found this as my reference: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2769827/en-nz
Sysprep has an additional provider that is added in Windows 8 to clean appx packages and generalize the image. The provider will only work if the Appx package is a per-user package or an all-user provisioned package.
and
Resolution
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i do a fair bit of procedure documentation work, and so use screen captures quite a lot. Since upgrading to leopard the screen grab tool now puts a 77(ish) pixel white border and drop shadow around the screen captures, which might look trendy for some things, but for the stuff I am doing is just annoying, and something that I have to remove from all of my screen captures.
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I have recently bought a fifth generation ipod, and have used the video capture feature.
First of all, this should have been posted in the +5th generation iPod Nano+ forum instead of the *5th generation iPod Video* one. Here is the link to this forum for future references.
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Why would you need to worry about this? Was your nano previously synced with another iTunes library? If not, all you should have to do is hook it up to the new iTunes library and you should be good to go. For instructions on how to remove videos from your iPod, see pages 55-56 of your iPod's manual, which can be found below.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPod_nano_5th_genUserGuide.pdf
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A duplication house was kind enough to convert a digi-Beta tape to file format for us. Two problems though, they used Wee-Willy-Winkie's super freeware capture program and provided us with two 180GB AVI's compressed with the FRWU D arim Vision Forward codec.
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This all happened because the dup house didn't follow my instructions which cost me about 4 extra hours of troubleshooting and workarounds.
Premiere CS4 opened the 180gb file without issue. If we weren't in a time crunch, I would make them do it over.
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Unable to capture packets on ASA(ASDM)

Hi all,
We have site to site VPN connection to one of our client. From which we both are accessing our applications and other resources. Now client needs to acccess two of our internal server. So we have created Static NAT in our ASA. For one server they are accessing without any issues. But the other server they are not able to connect. Since its vpn tunnel we havent blocked any ports and its open to all traffic. But their side they have restricted and we need to see whether the packets hitting our ASA or not. Once we observes this, its easy for us to escalate them. I tried packet capture wizard in ASDM. But its not showing anything. Can anyone tell me how to capture packets realated to Static NAT. Please let me know if you want anyother details?
local 20.0.0.0/24 -->this will get natted to --->12.0.6.0/24 when going in for tunnel
we have created
static(outside,inside) 12.0.6.10 20.0.0.10 255.255.255.255 working
static(outside,inside) 12.0.6.11 20.0.0.11 255.255.255.255 not working, we need to check whether its hitting 12.0.6.11
Kindly advise...
Regards,
Bala

Where are you trying to initiate the connection from?
If they are trying to initiate the connection towards your end, and the traffic doesn't reach your end, then there will be nothing on your ASA packet capture.
Please share what you have configured to capture the traffic?
To check if the traffic is reaching the inside interface, just configure ACL between source (real IP) and destination (remote IP), and apply the capture on the inside interface. This will confirm if the traffic is coming inbound towards the inside interface.
To check if the traffic is leaving the inside interface towards the host behind your ASA, configure ACL between source (remote IP), and destination (host real IP), and apply the capture on the inside interface. This will confirm if the traffic is leaving your ASA inside interface towards the host.

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java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
        at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1438)
        at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1411)
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Ted : i have two cases
1)   server = server_st.nextToken();
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at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1438)
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1411)
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CrystalReport = (CrystalReport)oInfoObjects.getInfoObject(0);
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but rh does not return a null value
the code ultimately throws a null handle at the following line
CrystalReport = (CrystalReport)oInfoObjects.getInfoObject(0);
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Unable to capture data in an editable dynamic ALV.

Hi ,
I have created a dynamic editable ALV whose displayed structure can be changed at runtime based on the selection in a drop down list value selector.
Im trying to capture the values entered in the ALV into an internal table before the user changes the structure of the ALV to a different structure.
In the ON_SELECT event handler of the drop down list box , im rasing a data_check event to capture the ALV data.
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Hi,
Last week I updated the drivers for my Blackmagic Multibridge extreme. Now when I try to capture the material in FinalCutPro 5.1.4 I can see the picture, hear the sound on my monitors (they are connected directly to Multibridge), but the captured material doesn't have sound, because it takes the sound from the internal audio input. I tried to capture from Blackmagic Deck Control (an external application) and it works fine, it captures with sound. So I suspect I have to change the audio input in FCP, but dont know where. In audio/video settings in FCP everything is set to DeckLink (Multibrige extreme).
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Thanks,
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