Make Movie To Digital Hi 8

billmcd wrote on 9/11/2003, 5:57 PM
I have a AMD 1100 w 768 RAM with XP Home. I have a large 28 min project 6.5 G. When downloading to Sony TCR-DRV 108 I have stalls and lost frames up to 2 sec's long. I am using SV2 Delux.

I have had this same problem using VideoWave 5 and Windows Movie Maker2 I also have Primer 6.0 but have not worked with it.

On my old Win98 SE system I had the same problem.

The file will render for a few minutes and then hang up with a blue screen on the tape for 1 to 2 sec's and then continue for up to several minutes and then will hang up again, sometimes several times in a row sometimes not. I get blank stares from other people including my computer guy when I mention this problem. It will happen when I am rendering shorter tapes. I have defraged the hard drive with no resolution to the problem.

This is driving me nuts.

Comments

Former user wrote on 9/11/2003, 11:27 PM
Do you have any Scheduled Tasks, like Defrag that might be kicking in.

Also, be sure you have DMA enabled for your harddrives.

Dave T2
Steve Grisetti wrote on 9/12/2003, 8:27 AM
Sounds like something in the background is interfering. Do you turn off your virus software?

Also check your scheduled processes (under Scheduled Tasks in the Control Panel in XP) and, if you're using XP, be sure to turn off your indexing. And, if you're on a network or are using cable modem or DSL, make sure you've disabled the hardware in your Device Manager. (You can re-enable them again without using your settings when you're done.)

There are other, little things you could check too (including cleaning off spyware with Spybot Search & Destroy), but that should take care of the most likely nuisances.

It could also be a page dump, from your RAM to virtual memory. That goes away if you add a second hard drive dedicated to video.

Hope that helps.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 9/12/2003, 8:51 AM
I had this problem once and turned out to be software I had downloaded from Ofoto.com to manage my still pictures. Apparently they thought it would be great if their software polled my USB SmartDrive every few seconds to see if I had inserted a SmartCard full of pictures. Unfortunately, it would cause dropped frames and stuttering playback each time they polled the USB device. Once I turned this off my system was fine again.

Run MSCONFIG and turn off anything in your startup that you don’t need. I’ll bet there’s lots of “terminate and stay resident” programs trying to “help you out”. Also get a copy of EndItAll2 (free utility) and terminate anything that’s running on your PC before you try and do video work. Turn off anti-virus too.

Also make sure you have lots of free hard drive space. You may have defragged but if there wasn’t enough space on the drive to make a contiguous copy, your files may still be fragmented.

~jr
billmcd wrote on 9/12/2003, 1:22 PM
Probably a dumb question but I see that EnditAll2 is not compatiable to XP am I wrong?
Steve Grisetti wrote on 9/12/2003, 1:25 PM
Works fine on my machine.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 9/12/2003, 3:24 PM
Yea, works on mine too. I don't know why it would state it’s not compatible? The idea is just to get rid of processes that are not absolutely needed.

~jr
IanG wrote on 9/12/2003, 6:36 PM
I haven't seen anything that says it's incompatible - rather, it doesn't say that it is compatible. It's like unsupported and doesn't work - they're not the same thing!

Ian G.
laz wrote on 9/13/2003, 4:31 AM
How are you set up: main prog on 'c', with data on another drive? Checked for nasties (best place to go is Housecall http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp but disable onboard av 1st - I picked up 3 even with AntiVir Guard running).
pete_h wrote on 9/13/2003, 8:52 AM
When you use EndItAll, should you use the 'close' or 'kill' option?
laz wrote on 9/14/2003, 2:57 AM
With EIA I use 'close' as this allows any writing to disc to continue until finished, whereas 'kill' shuts down immediately (like Ctrl,Alt,Delete) and any info won't be saved.