Had to resort to Adobe Premiere to go to DVCAM tape

pb wrote on 8/12/2002, 12:45 AM
Yup, you read it right. I cut a 14:30 show using DVCAM tapes recorded on a new DSR 500WS, clips captured from a a DHR1000. Project looked and sounded great within Vegas but was jerky, pixelated and totally out of synch when I tried to go to print to DV tape. Tried all the tips in "help" bugger all helped even slightly. What really made me furious was last week I digitized a 28:00 Power Point show using Catasia, cleaned it up in Vegas then exported to tape no problem.

The only way I could finish the DVCAM project was to export the whole darn thing as Windows AVI, DV cocec then open the bugger in Premiere 6.0 and then just record the timeline output. This is crazy. I have a 1.2 Ghz Athalon with 1024 megs RAM, a Raedon 64 meg video card, a Creative labs Audigy sound card and all media drives are maxtor Fire Wire 10,000 RPM. What on earth am I doing wrong? Remember, the Cantasia generated slide show video worked perfectly fine first try!

All suggestions are welcome becasue I have to edit another show on Tuesday and I despise Adobe Premiere in any of its manifestations.

Peter

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 8/12/2002, 9:04 AM
Are you rendering to DV and printing thru a 1394 card?
kkolbo wrote on 8/12/2002, 10:19 AM
I print to DVCAM all of the time. I capture from my my PD-150 and print to my 150. Come to think of it I do generally render it to DV before printing. Hmmm I haven't tried just putting raw DVCAM capture on the timeline and then printing it.

K
pb wrote on 8/12/2002, 12:36 PM
Yes I am using a Pyro 1394 card. I also tried going out through the 1394 port on my Soundblaster Audigy. We capture and export DVCAM with the other PC's Pinnacle DC1000DV all the time with no problem and Adobe 6.0, despite its myriad shortcomings, never fails to go back to tape. I tried erasing all the prerendered files then doing a complete prerender again. The video plays fine on the external monitor setting, unfortunately, unlike Adobe, the audio doesn't go with the video straight from the time line.
SonyEPM wrote on 8/12/2002, 1:01 PM
If you printed fine with Vegas once before, and now cannot, what changed on your system?
Cheesehole wrote on 8/12/2002, 1:42 PM
>>>If you printed fine with Vegas once before, and now cannot, what changed on your system?

I believe he has only printed to tape before with non-DVCAM material or with a program other than Vegas according to what I'm reading. so I guess the answer to that question is 'DVCAM'.

so I decided to test DVCAM capture / print to tape from timeline using a DSR-11

other than the fact that automatic print to tape from timeline still doesn't work, the capture / print of DVCAM footage worked fine. no corruption was evident. if you like I can try something else.

please for the love of all things good and holy, enable automatic mode for this deck? I'm completely baffled as to why I can have automatic batch capture, but I can't have automatic print to tape. this deck is very significant, being the cheapest way to get into DVCAM. I've recommended the DSR-11 / Vegas combo to a stock footage house recently. they ran out and bought everything, but sooner or later they will discover the sad truth that they will not be able to queue up a render before they leave, and have it printed to tape when they return in the morning, something they will undoubtedly be doing in their business.

so what do I have to do? I think we discovered this bug in 2001, so why no fixes in the updates? I've been patient I never thought it would be half way through 2002 and still dealing with this 'quirk'.
speedjet wrote on 8/17/2002, 7:58 AM
Peter, I found myself in the same trouble a few weeks ago trying to get back to tape (form timeline or vidcap) without success, the Pause-Record was never released by VV3c, but solved "unlocking" the audio of my DSR30P (pressing rec-pause when turning my deck on).

On the DVCAm equipment, older than DSR11 or DSR25 this "feature" of audio could make your life a hell, don't know why Premire work well without the trick.

Regards,

Luis