Dropping frames going back to DV Cam

garylon wrote on 12/17/2001, 2:16 PM
Hi all. Loving VF, no problem creating my movie, but when I 'print to tape' back to my Sony DV, there are 'time-outs' or 'dropped frames'. The camera actually loses signal from the computer (it seems), then continues. Result is nice looking movie with blank spots ;(..

Seems to happen with large and small movies (from 100MB-6G), with/without music, etc.

Anyone else experiencing this?

VF 2.0a, WinXP, tried from NTFS and Fat32 partitions, degragged drive,

Any help or suggestions are really appreciated!

Thanks - Gary

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 12/17/2001, 3:00 PM
This sounds very much like the IRQ issues that have been discussed here many times. You might try searching this and the Vegas forum for "IRQ".
deef wrote on 12/27/2001, 9:02 PM
Please check out this FAQ:

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/support/SupportProduct.asp?FamilyID=52&Family=VideoFactory&TopicID=78&DetailID=879

Numero uno: make sure DMA is enabled for the drive via Device Manager.
garylon wrote on 12/28/2001, 3:20 PM
I'll check out the article - thanks. Regarding DMA; Windows XP treats this differently. You do not have the option to enable or disable it the same as you used to. You have two choices in 'transfer mode' on the Primary IDE channel; 'PIO Only' and 'DMA if available'. I have it set to DMA if available. I'm assuming this is the same as enabling DMA. Also, under the Primary IDE Channel properties, it says that the current transfer mode is Ultra DMA Mode 4.
garylon wrote on 12/28/2001, 4:13 PM
FYI - I installed the updated VIA drivers and it did not solve the problem ;(
deef wrote on 12/30/2001, 8:26 PM
Please give system, OS, and DV device specs including mobo and hard drives.
garylon wrote on 1/1/2002, 8:17 PM
Win XP (5.1.2600 build 2600)
AMD Thunderbird 900 MHZ
512 MB Ram
MB: ASUS A7Pro ACPI BIOS 7/24/2001 (latest version)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 32MB
Hard Drives: IBM Deskstars 30GB & 60GB
Camera: Sony DCR TRV-530 NTSC
IEEE card: Texas Instruments OHCI IEEE 1394 Firewire card