I have a peculiar problem and I'm not sure how to isolate where the weak link is. I'm hoping that someone else out there has experience or is experiencing a similar problem so we can find a solution together.
I have a brand new laptop and have been editing with an external ADS Dual Link Firewire Drive (has the oxford 911 chipset). Everything has been great but when I try to Print-to-tape I experience audio dropouts on the tape from the very beginning. The dropouts don't show up when I playback from the timeline during editing - only when I PTT. This was only the 2nd project that I exported from the laptop and had no difficulties with the first (but I used a Western Digital external drive on the 1st one).
I tried everything I could think of to get it to work...and then it magically worked on the last time I said I was going to try it. There was no explanation for why it didn't drop audio the last time I exported (that I can think of) b/c I didn't change anything. I've since tried to export several more times and cannot overcome the audio dropout problem.
However, if I take the ADS firewire drive to a different computer it will PTT fine w/o any audio dropout. The only thing I haven't tried that I can think of is to use a firewire card in the available cardbus slot to see if that works.
The specs on the laptop are:
3.06 HT enabled Processor
1 GIG DDR 333 RAM
60 gig system drive
200 gig external firewire drive mounted in ADS case
I think the motherboard is based on the SiS645DX Chipset
So, if anyone has any ideas on why I would get audio dropout, let me know.
I have a brand new laptop and have been editing with an external ADS Dual Link Firewire Drive (has the oxford 911 chipset). Everything has been great but when I try to Print-to-tape I experience audio dropouts on the tape from the very beginning. The dropouts don't show up when I playback from the timeline during editing - only when I PTT. This was only the 2nd project that I exported from the laptop and had no difficulties with the first (but I used a Western Digital external drive on the 1st one).
I tried everything I could think of to get it to work...and then it magically worked on the last time I said I was going to try it. There was no explanation for why it didn't drop audio the last time I exported (that I can think of) b/c I didn't change anything. I've since tried to export several more times and cannot overcome the audio dropout problem.
However, if I take the ADS firewire drive to a different computer it will PTT fine w/o any audio dropout. The only thing I haven't tried that I can think of is to use a firewire card in the available cardbus slot to see if that works.
The specs on the laptop are:
3.06 HT enabled Processor
1 GIG DDR 333 RAM
60 gig system drive
200 gig external firewire drive mounted in ADS case
I think the motherboard is based on the SiS645DX Chipset
So, if anyone has any ideas on why I would get audio dropout, let me know.