BAD CAPTURE

studioLord wrote on 6/20/2006, 1:21 PM
I am about to leave for a trip to New mexico. our intention is to film a seminar for a friend. I set up a Videonics mixer with two camcorders the other day to "test" .It seemed to work fine. Today I wanted to try hooking up a lapel mic to the set up and discovered that the sound during capture is badly garbled(without the lapel being hooked up) and I am dropping frames all during the capture. i did not notice that i was dropping frames anything like this the other day....and the quality was far better than it is right now.... I have a Canopus110 capture device going into a firewire connection in the back of the computer. I just added a 320 G hard drive to capture all of the footage.... Any suggestions on what the heck is going on with my system? I thought it was the fact that I put the capture box on top of the computer, but after moving it, it had no effect on it. HELP!!! I am leaving Wed Pm from OKC to New Mexico....today is Tues.....(Sweat sweat)
John

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studioLord wrote on 6/20/2006, 1:52 PM
update.... I plugged the capture device into another computer and it works fine.....No dropped frames and clear sound....
I intentionally put the 320 G drive into the first computer to make ready for the trip.... basically, that's all that was changed from the setup that worked a few days ago..... How wierd is that?
John
studioLord wrote on 6/20/2006, 2:55 PM
new update... A friend just came over and we set up to capture the original way I did it the other day. When I set up to record to Drive "D".( an 80 G drive)... all is well.... When I se up to record to Drive "F", the new 320 G drive it goes nuts and is garbled and stutters.... This has to be a setting... I have to be able to record to the big drive in order to capture two days of filming...
HELP !!! I am running out of time before I have to leave to go do the filming...
Thanks...
John
SEW wrote on 6/20/2006, 3:18 PM
You probably already checked but, make sure the channel is set to 'DMA if available' not 'PIO only'.
studioLord wrote on 6/20/2006, 3:32 PM
Yeppers we already tried that avenue.... It has to be a setting... We just uninstalled and reinstalled VMS and it's still doing the same thing.... I can capture perfectly well on "D" drive, but when I try "F" drive it is bad.
John
SEW wrote on 6/20/2006, 4:23 PM
Again, you probably already checked but make sure the CS, Slave, master jumper is set correctly for the drive and system If possible, do not share the channel/cable with a CD or DVD drive.
JeffD wrote on 6/20/2006, 10:36 PM
> Again, you probably already checked but
> make sure the CS, Slave, master jumper
> is set correctly for the drive and system If
> possible, do not share the channel/cable
> with a CD or DVD drive.

I had similar problems with a new 160GB WD drive I added to my Dell PC, and though I *thought* I did things right, I learned that I had to change a setting in the Dell BIOS setup; else it would always defeat any changes I tried to make with Device Manager. I don't remember the details right now, but doing the BIOS thing solved the problem.
Andy C wrote on 6/21/2006, 2:35 AM
Is it worth re-partitioning and formatting the 320GB drive with the largest blocksize (64KB I think)?