Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

thomamon

macrumors 65816
Original poster
Nov 24, 2008
1,221
163
Flemington, NJ
OK, so I decided to take on this project of capturing my old video from my Sony TRV 17. I went ahead and did my first tape, it was only 5 minutes long.

For some reason it broke the clip up into 3 clips. The first clip is nearly 5 minutes, with a 2 second clip and a 4 second clip. I did not stop recording at any point there. When I play the video back in the preview box on top, it plays through smoothly.

When I drag it to the timeline and play it back, there is a quick gap in sound between the clips. It seems as if I can not put the clips back to back. Any clue on how I can fix that?

Also any suggestion on how I should export the files? I am undecided if I just want to leave them on the computer or put them on DVD at this point. Is there a way to convert the files so they are not so big? The 5 minute clip I captured before is over a gig!

Thanks

PS Just to let you know, the video is MiniDV and SD so it has the blackbars on the side.
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.