After doing considerable testing, here's a *potential* workaround I've come up with for using the Dazzle* Hollywood DV-Bridge with 3.0a. I tested under Win98SE, Win2k, and WinXP.
Please let us know if this works or not. Thanks in advance!!
***Steps to improve Dazzle* Hollywood DV-Bridge A/V capture performance and avoid phantom dropped frames problem (after testing various scenarios), by getting timecode to stop updating:
=> NOTE this will only work if you're NOT using the LANC adapter.
1) Power down Dazzle and disconnect DV cable from PC
2) Ensure the Dazzle's LANC connector is NOT connected to anything
3) Ensure DV device control is enabled in Video Capture
4) Power up the Dazzle, set to "A to D" mode, and then connect DV cable to PC
5) Ensure that converted DV stream is previewing properly on Video Capture's Capture tab (by manually controlling analog source) and that timecode is updating (albeit incorrectly)
=> the play transport button should be toggled down (if not then hit Play)
6) Hit the pause transport button, this should stop the timecode from updating (audio seems to stop also), while the video continues to be delivered
7) Disable DV device control
8) Now the converted DV stream should be ok, while the timecode doesn't update
9) To get the timecode to 00:00:00;00, cycle through the "modes" until back to "A to D" mode
10) Capture footage => the dropped frame count during capture and in the post capture dlg should now be 0.
**Switching the Dazzle "mode", "Reconnect to current device" from Video Capture, and disconnecting the DV connection from the Dazzle to the computer do not seem to affect it once it's setup this way.
**However, if you do connect the LANC adapter, or cycle the power on the Dazzle, you'll need to run through these steps again to get the timecode from updating.
Thanks!
Please let us know if this works or not. Thanks in advance!!
***Steps to improve Dazzle* Hollywood DV-Bridge A/V capture performance and avoid phantom dropped frames problem (after testing various scenarios), by getting timecode to stop updating:
=> NOTE this will only work if you're NOT using the LANC adapter.
1) Power down Dazzle and disconnect DV cable from PC
2) Ensure the Dazzle's LANC connector is NOT connected to anything
3) Ensure DV device control is enabled in Video Capture
4) Power up the Dazzle, set to "A to D" mode, and then connect DV cable to PC
5) Ensure that converted DV stream is previewing properly on Video Capture's Capture tab (by manually controlling analog source) and that timecode is updating (albeit incorrectly)
=> the play transport button should be toggled down (if not then hit Play)
6) Hit the pause transport button, this should stop the timecode from updating (audio seems to stop also), while the video continues to be delivered
7) Disable DV device control
8) Now the converted DV stream should be ok, while the timecode doesn't update
9) To get the timecode to 00:00:00;00, cycle through the "modes" until back to "A to D" mode
10) Capture footage => the dropped frame count during capture and in the post capture dlg should now be 0.
**Switching the Dazzle "mode", "Reconnect to current device" from Video Capture, and disconnecting the DV connection from the Dazzle to the computer do not seem to affect it once it's setup this way.
**However, if you do connect the LANC adapter, or cycle the power on the Dazzle, you'll need to run through these steps again to get the timecode from updating.
Thanks!