massive dropped frames

icarus wrote on 2/23/2004, 2:12 PM

although my system worked just fine, at some point it began to drop frames prohibitively, and at the same time became unable to render a project or selection without similar glitches and missed segments. i am running vv3 on 2.4g p4 w/ 512m ram. is there a system component which might have become corrupt? i reinstalled and all that, including my firewire card. thanks for any help which will obviate an os reinstall.

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Jsnkc wrote on 2/23/2004, 2:15 PM

I'd try a defrag on all your drives, that can sometimes help. Especially if everything was working fine and you haven't changed or installed anything to cause the problems.

icarus wrote on 2/23/2004, 2:33 PM

i have defragged fairly recently, although i certainly wil try that again. there has been a lot of rather invasive software coming and going on my system (drivers and such), and i was wondering if there is a particular aspect that might have been affected which would interfere w/ the capture/render process. thanks.

Jsnkc wrote on 2/23/2004, 2:42 PM

Pretty much the only thing that would effect your capture process is your firewire card, might want to make sure the right driver is there, that you have the network disabled for the card, possibly switch the card to a diffrent slot.

icarus wrote on 2/23/2004, 3:22 PM

ok, i'll try that. i haven't changed any of the hardware setup, yet this problem has occured. it is really frustrating and discouraging. i have spent easily 10 times as much time trying to make and keep capturing working than i have actually doing the process. this situation is new, however, in that rendering also has gone south. oh, well. thanks. i'll try these suggestions, and if unsuccessful, out comes the big os vacuum cleaner. sigh.

rique wrote on 2/23/2004, 3:23 PM

When this started happening to me it was because some new software was automatically running in the background when I booted up. Try Start/Run/ type "msconfig" hit OK and then click on the Startup tab. Uncheck every application you don't need to run at startup. Click OK then reboot. It solved my problem.

RichMacDonald wrote on 2/23/2004, 3:33 PM

Give EndItAll a try

Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 2/23/2004, 3:41 PM

If you know when this started, and you have Xp see if you can do a restore to that date, mark today first so you can come back if still the same.

rmack350 wrote on 2/23/2004, 4:44 PM

Capture can be effected by network traffic. You might try shutting down all network interfaces, not just the 1394 net interface.

Same for print to tape.

For rendering? Seems like renders would slow down rather than skip frames. Are you sure you haven't installed some new codecs or a new video application?

Rob Mack

icarus wrote on 2/24/2004, 8:43 AM

actually, i have experimented w/ various capture devices, though none since or just prior to this new set of problems, but one question i have is that the pinnacle dc10 capture codec or driver got installed somewhere which vv3 still identifies as an option, but which i cannot find anywhere on the system, long after unstall. i would love to get it out of there, but it is as yet elusive. as for the rest, i have begun the odious process of wiping my primary, and doing a reinstall. it has been a couple of years, and there's too much shrapnel now to navigate cleanly. so thanks to everybody!