Lessons Learned (Concerning Video not Audio Issues)

Kris_Blom wrote on 9/19/2000, 7:58 PM
Hope this helps others save over 100 hours of trouble
shooting and a lot of money trying different things. I was
determined from day one to get VV working as advertised and
can finally say I am now a proud VV Editor. The following
is a summary of things I experienced and learned the hard
way and have also seen on this forum over and over.
- Why only OHCI Cards? Why can't I use other cards like
Pinnacle and Matrox? That's what I thought so for a month
I was importing AVIs from my Pinnacle DV500, making cool
videos, but come render time I ended up with complete
garbage. Why? Because my DV500 Codecs were automatically
over-riding the VV codecs and destroying my final
production. If you hate Premiere and love VV as I do, get
DV500 off your machine and keep it off. Buy a cheap Pyro
Card, install it, and throw away the CDs that came with
it...
- But how do I then get legacy analog and live analog
(DirecTV, cable etc.) to DV format? Easy, buy a Sony DVMC-
DA2 for under $400.00
- My camera goes bonkers when I try to Print to Tape using
SF VV Capture. Yet other programs like MediaStudio Pro are
working great. I can even Print to Tape MediaStudio Pro
clips using VV Capture, just not the VV rendered clips.
This absolutely has to be a software issue with VV!!! I
have the biggest bad ass system on the planet and this
can't be a hardware problem. NOT... If using WD 7200 RPM
HDDs like I am, ensure that you have enabled DMA on all of
them in control panel/system/disk drives. This fixed
everthing for me!!!!!
- I can't tell you how much I learned just buy surfing
around this forum, www.videoguys.com, and www.cnet.com as a
few starters...

Now I am just looking forward to some cool 3rd party plug-
ins to start rolling onto the shelves soon...

And for Mr. You Know Who, who can't seem to find the right
forum or a life, oh never mind, some battles just aren't
worth fighting...

Comments

PSPattison wrote on 9/21/2000, 5:25 PM


>>- But how do I then get legacy analog and live analog
>>(DirecTV, cable etc.) to DV format? Easy, buy a Sony DVMC-
>>DA2 for under $400.00

Kris:

Do you now use the DVMC-DA2? My VV construction project got delayed
right after I researched that box but it looks like I'll be needing
it soon, now. Are you using an external monitor during all VV
edit/output functions? Is the Sony box doing what we imagined it
would do?

It's good to hear a success story. Thanks for the tips.

PSP
Kris_Blom wrote on 9/21/2000, 8:07 PM
I'm not using it now, as I just decided to buy another camera
(Panasonic PV-DV600) that captures all analog, and I wanted another
DV Camera in my arsenal anyway. But from hours and hours of surfing,
I found some other newsgroup users that use it, and yes, appearently
it is everything Sony says it is. It is a hardware codec, but the
beauty of it is that it is external from your PC, therefore will not
interfer with the VV software codecs like the "other cards" do. If
you don't have a DV camera that can capture analog, I would buy it.
It seems a bit hard to get a hold of, but www.pcmall.com currently
carries it for 399.00 By the way, I do own and use a Sony break out
box for all my crazy device routing schemes and it works great.
I do occasionally use an external monitor and have set it up exactly
per SF recommendations which works fine. That is: Select external
monitor in VV, Have your DV device (camera) hooked up and turned on,
then have an analog out (rca or s video) from your camera or other DV
device to any monitor such as a TV or VCR etc. Although this works
great for preview quality, I usually just focus on the VV preview
window which is actually pretty darn accurate of what your final
broadcast quality movie will look like. I see no reason why the DVMC-
DA2 wouldn't work using the same principles for external monitors.

Yes, I know, I am too damn winded sometimes. I just love this stuff
after writing code all day for other non fun things... Good Luck.


Palmer Pattison wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>- But how do I then get legacy analog and live analog
>>>>(DirecTV, cable etc.) to DV format? Easy, buy a Sony DVMC-
>>>>DA2 for under $400.00
>>
>>Kris:
>>
>>Do you now use the DVMC-DA2? My VV construction project got
delayed
>>right after I researched that box but it looks like I'll be needing
>>it soon, now. Are you using an external monitor during all VV
>>edit/output functions? Is the Sony box doing what we imagined it
>>would do?
>>
>>It's good to hear a success story. Thanks for the tips.
>>
>>PSP
>>