I have tried most all of these to no avail. Tried changing the print to tape in the other tab. DV cam is not daisy chained. Changed to the microsoft DV driver. Not sure how to tell if my hard drive has DMA enabled?? Not using a SCSI hard drive. Couldnt find a link to update the motherboard drivers - I am running ME.
I am very frustrated at this point. I downloaded the new directX 8.
Where do I go from here?????

HELP

I checked, my hard drive had the DMA box checked already. Do you use a seperate hard drive? I only have one (60GB)
I am running VV version 2.0b build 362 and VC 2b build 39. I just purchased it about a month ago. I rendered my file using the DV NTSC template. I was reading somewhere that you need to update the BIOS?
When I try to print to tape it's very choppy and usually quits after about thirty seconds.

Mike

I had some problems as well. I usually go through these steps before doing a print to tape:

1. Get rid of background image (wallpaper)
2. Turn off screen saver
3. Reboot
4. Kill every running program except Explorer and Systray. I use the Ctrl+Alt+Del method. I also have ME.
5. Do the print to tape

After that it works for me. If I need to do a particularly long print I go into the bios and disable the LPT and USB ports.

I've found it also is good to have a separate hard drive to use for rendering. The 7200 IDE drives are really inexpensive (60GB for $105 around here).

HTH,

Tom

I still can't get the thing to work. Downloaded the DirectX and both the h upgrades - still having the same exact problems?

What settings do you use in the record setup delay? record engage delay?

AARRRGGG

Mike

This may be worth a shot:
Control Panel>>System>>Device Manager>>1394 Bus Controller>>Properties>>Settings, check "Support Non Compliant Devices", ok, re-boot.
This setting is available using the ADS Pyro with Win98 SE. Good luck.

How big is this tape you are trying to print to tape. I had a limilar problem that was solved when I changed the render settings. The file you are trying to print should work out to about 3.5 megs per second. Does the file do the same thing in windows media player? Mine did. Second possibility is your hard drive isn't fast enough. I had to run a utility that came with my motherboard disk to enable the DMA33/66. Try and find a program that will measure the sustained transfer rate of you hard drive. I use the one in Studio DV, that came with my 1394 Firewire card. The Studio DV program says you need at least 4mb/sec tranfer rate but I had skipping on a drive that ran at 4.2mb/sec. When I finally got a DMA66 drive running properly, you should be able to get at least 20mb/sec (cause that's what I got) from it.
Good luck
PS It does work. My system is now running flawlessly...

THe file is about seven minutes long - just over a gig. What render setting are you using? I have tried changing these so many time I'm not sure what the default is. The problem only happens when I print to tape - I can watch it just fine on the WMP.
I am so frustrated at this point. I even installed a second 7200 hard drive and added more memory. I uninstalled and re-installed VV (with the H updates and the directX updates)
Help!

Please confirm:

1) You have captured from a DV camera, thru a 1394 card, using SF Video Capture

2) I have rendered to .avi using the unmodified NTSC DV template

3) You have loaded that rendered file into SF Video Capture and are trying to print that back thru 1394 to a DV camera

Is that what you are doing? If not, please list your camera, capture card, project and render settings, and any software besides SF Vegas and SF Video Capture used in the process.

1) I captured video via a Sony DV cammie trv11 to VV 2.0h
2) yes - file was rendered as a .avi using the NTSC DV template
3) Yes

VV 2.0h is the only editing software I am using. What are the default render settings?

Mike

ok, so far so good. Now you load the rendered NTSC DV file into SF Video Capture (version...?) and try to print the file to tape and what happens extacly?

It starts out choppy, starts losing frames (looks like big grey puzzle pieces) turns to a complete blue screen in about 20-30 seconds
(Capture version 2.0h)