Re: Capturing from analogue sources using Movie Maker

Rehan wrote:
> Griffo Fooxburr wrote:
> ...
>> However, your answer doesn't address the "heart" of my question:
>> 'Why would MM care about what's "before" DV part?'
>
> What happened was that the programmers at WMM team tried to be smart
> and made a wrong assumption. Rather than start capturing whatever is
> coming through the DV cable, they introduced a "helpful" feature to
> automatically rewind the tape so you always get the full tape. But
> this meant if there is no tape such as when u are doing a pass thru,
> WMM would still try to rewind and then complain that there is no
> tape. This essentially meant pass thru was no more possible. If one
> could kill this dialog or there was an option to say "IGNORE" then
> it would have
> worked as before as the actual functionality was still there in 2.0.

Now I understand (damn those programmers! :-))
Unfortunatelly, this leads me to another question, which I will ask in a
separate post.

Thanks again for the clarification.

.

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