Hard drives...and dropped frames!!!

MoBetta wrote on 1/12/2003, 6:31 PM
I am working on a project using video clips recently captured onto a new system I built and clips from my previous system. I transferred two of the hard drives to my new system and all seemed to work fine until I tried to print to tape. By the way, I was V.V. 3.0 in my old system and it worked without problems. I am getting the following:
On the clips transferred form the old from the hard drive:
- All clips play fine when viewed in video preview or in media player. All files are avi. NTSC DV , lower filed. and I am using the same settings on both systems.
- When I try to preview them on my external monitor, I get dropped frames, blue & gray screen and choppy images.
- Same as above when I try to print to tape, dropped frames.

When I capture on my new system, preview in video preview or external monitor, or print to tape, all is fine, works like a charm. I tried using a different DV cable between my computer and my Sony Walkman or plug it to a different port, but it has nothing to do with cables or connections and my Walkman is also fine. I double-checked by switching everything around and always boils down to: Bringing footage from my hard drives moved from the old to the new computer. At this point I can only assume the following:

- The hard drives from the old system got corrupted when I installed them on the new system
- The drives are not compatible with my new systems (2) Western Digital 7200 100GB

I have tried rendering the clips to a different folder and re-opening them, with the same results. Something else that happens, when I switch back to viewing the clips in video preview, the screen on my external monitor keeps flashing from blue screen and gray screen, eventhough it is not being used.

Any advise on moving or re-saving the files… or something else so I can save my project.

Thanks

MoBetta

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 1/12/2003, 10:38 PM
Hmm... you did a fresh install on win2k/xp/ or 98, correct? If you use 2k (like 1 do) you need to download a patch to enable ATA 100 support. Also, make sure of the folowing:
1) your capture drive is not your windows OS drive (with i think it isn't)
2) make sure you have both of the 100gb drives on the same IDA cable
3) enable DMA
4) defrag

I noticed a simular occerance where I work too: we upgraded and put in our old SCSI 160 drive, but it was dropping frams and our ATA 100 drives wearn't. We couldn't figure out why, so it ended up being a backup drive. A real shame considering that the SCSI one cost quite a bit of money.
MoBetta wrote on 1/16/2003, 11:32 AM
Thanks for your reply Happy.

I think I might have part of the answer. My new system had the following: Three hard drives, all Western Digitals, the main is partitionnned C & D , C has my operating system and most of my softwares, my D has some of my video editing programs ( Vegas Video, Sound Forge, Noise Reduction, etc) and the majority of my Vidcap files. That hard drive is a 7200 IDE interface. I also have two W.D. 100Gb 7200 SCSI interface hard drives. I keep some of my video capture on one of them (E ) and save the majority of my projects on the other drive (F). Is it possible the reason I am getting those dropped frames and fragmented play from the timeline is because of the two interface from my hard drives? If so, do I need to replace the IDE for a SCSI? or can I simply move everything associated with V.V. to my two SCSI drives ie: V.V. programs and captured video to one drive (E) and all projects and rendered files to the other (F)?
I should also mention that once I render a project, it plays fine on my external monitor.

MoBetta