Just reloaded all Vegas software including the Vegas
capture program. The problem is still there: somewhere
between rendering and printing to tape a flutter is added
to only some parts of the video, not all. The flutter looks
like it's dropping every 5-10 frames and is most ovbvious
when I play back the corrupted files on MS video player
where it behaves even stranger: Plays one second, stops for
several, and then plays one second more before continueing
same behavior. If I play the same clip before rendering
it's fine even in MS vid player, that's how we've isolated
the problem to either rendering or printing to tape.
Personally I think it's the later, printing to tape that's
causing it and since that involved my capture card I may
try another card to see if it helps. Here's what already
has been tried: 1). defragged Data drive 2).reinstalled all
vegas software 3).tried printing to different tapes:
problem remained in same areas 4)reseated Capture card
(Studiop DV 200) 5) moved Captured card to different PCI
slot and assigned new IRQ #. All to no avail...if you would
be email a similar list of other things to try I'd greatly
appreciate it. Fell free to include obvious ones as I may
be overlooking obvious solutions. The only thing that seems
to minimise, but not eliminate this problem is rendering
very small sections (less than 1 gig files), but this is
relative and even subjective. Nothing new has been added to
my system since this problem began...here's my set up:
Win 98 SE, Vegas 2.0b
ASUS P2B Dual SCSI Mboard
Two PIII 550s ( in perfect stepping order. Only one is
acxtive with Win 98 SE)
384 meg ram, 100 mhz side bus
two UW SCSI hard drives:
C:Program drive Quantum Viking II WLS ( 12365 Kb/sec
read and slow 6584 Kb/sec write. tested with Pinnacle
software)
D:Data drive= IBM DMVS18V (10,000 RPM) Pinnacle tested
21471 read, 9004 write
AGP Matrox G400 Dual head (2 moniters) Video card (IRQ 11
alone)
MOTU 2408 using multi-media driver vers 1.01 1998 ( I
believe the original)
Asio I and II exist, but only used with Steinbugger
software.
Pinnacle System Studio DV 300 capture card using Teaxas
Instruments OHCI compliant driver.
Imaging Device = Sony TRV 900 camera using MSWDM Image
capture driver from 98 SE
External modem that can be turned off during video and
music sesions.
One odd thing to note is the problem statred only with this
project when I started mixing clips recorded on two
different DV Cams: mine with 3 ccds and another with only
one chip, but the problem only appears in footage shot with
the Sony 3 chip. I have been using this camera only with
Vegas before with no problems. It is the Cam I print to
tpae with...could it be something as simple as cleaning the
Sony's record heads?
TIA
Andrew Voigt
Jingletown Studios
Oakland. CA
capture program. The problem is still there: somewhere
between rendering and printing to tape a flutter is added
to only some parts of the video, not all. The flutter looks
like it's dropping every 5-10 frames and is most ovbvious
when I play back the corrupted files on MS video player
where it behaves even stranger: Plays one second, stops for
several, and then plays one second more before continueing
same behavior. If I play the same clip before rendering
it's fine even in MS vid player, that's how we've isolated
the problem to either rendering or printing to tape.
Personally I think it's the later, printing to tape that's
causing it and since that involved my capture card I may
try another card to see if it helps. Here's what already
has been tried: 1). defragged Data drive 2).reinstalled all
vegas software 3).tried printing to different tapes:
problem remained in same areas 4)reseated Capture card
(Studiop DV 200) 5) moved Captured card to different PCI
slot and assigned new IRQ #. All to no avail...if you would
be email a similar list of other things to try I'd greatly
appreciate it. Fell free to include obvious ones as I may
be overlooking obvious solutions. The only thing that seems
to minimise, but not eliminate this problem is rendering
very small sections (less than 1 gig files), but this is
relative and even subjective. Nothing new has been added to
my system since this problem began...here's my set up:
Win 98 SE, Vegas 2.0b
ASUS P2B Dual SCSI Mboard
Two PIII 550s ( in perfect stepping order. Only one is
acxtive with Win 98 SE)
384 meg ram, 100 mhz side bus
two UW SCSI hard drives:
C:Program drive Quantum Viking II WLS ( 12365 Kb/sec
read and slow 6584 Kb/sec write. tested with Pinnacle
software)
D:Data drive= IBM DMVS18V (10,000 RPM) Pinnacle tested
21471 read, 9004 write
AGP Matrox G400 Dual head (2 moniters) Video card (IRQ 11
alone)
MOTU 2408 using multi-media driver vers 1.01 1998 ( I
believe the original)
Asio I and II exist, but only used with Steinbugger
software.
Pinnacle System Studio DV 300 capture card using Teaxas
Instruments OHCI compliant driver.
Imaging Device = Sony TRV 900 camera using MSWDM Image
capture driver from 98 SE
External modem that can be turned off during video and
music sesions.
One odd thing to note is the problem statred only with this
project when I started mixing clips recorded on two
different DV Cams: mine with 3 ccds and another with only
one chip, but the problem only appears in footage shot with
the Sony 3 chip. I have been using this camera only with
Vegas before with no problems. It is the Cam I print to
tpae with...could it be something as simple as cleaning the
Sony's record heads?
TIA
Andrew Voigt
Jingletown Studios
Oakland. CA