Oh man, PTT probs from external harddrive.

DGrob wrote on 2/9/2003, 4:00 PM

You've seen me before. Just activated a new Maxtor 120GB, 7200rpm drive and Belkin firewire card and wire to my Dell I8200 running XP. Talked to Grazie and read this forum fairly carefully. Retained factory 1394 for DV camcorder in/out and plugged the external into the Belkin. Tested, i.e. capture to external went fine. V3 4-min project rendered to external with no problems. Cannot PTT from timeline or Capture menu. Get a few seconds of feed, then blue screen for a second or two, then a few more seconds of feed (with no loss of video or audio, the blue screen time is inserted into flow) and so on and so on. Pretty sure I've done my "preferences" et all. I have the sneaking suspicion I'm overlooking something pretty basic. Got all the background stuff shut down, got Fangui. Any input appreciated.

Oh, Just went V3 from VF. Been doing just fine rendering and PTT on the one internal 30GB drive. V4 likely, assuming I don't just go back to VF and 30gigs.

Grob

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DGrob wrote on 2/20/2003, 12:49 PM

Differences? Well, I have 17 listings in common, and 19 "other." I'm not sure where this is headed.

Did you see my posting to ozmerlin and SoFo above? (2/19) re the Intel accelerator and data stream routing?

I think I'm going back to super8mm film. Grob

wcoxe1 wrote on 2/20/2003, 1:11 PM

SOMETHING just ain't right. This discussion, and others similar, remind me of all the compatibility problems of 20 years ago when individual parts and software were manufactured to loose specs, and things didn't always work together. It is better, now, but NOT in all areas. Like this one, perhaps.

By the way, I didn't read this whole thread. Sorry if I mention something that you all know, but it is kinda long.

I have noticed in postings and gripes from other forums that quite a few people are having trouble with firewire drives who are NOT using Vegas. I suggest that you look around, you may be discussing a generic problem. If you find some common complaints from lots of places, I'd gather them and make a serious gripe to the companies involved.

Seems to me that something VERY serious is wrong at at VERY low level. This just should not be happening. There is an overlooked DESIGN flaw somewhere. Perhaps in the computer, mother board, CPU, Chipset, BIOS, the OS, the firewire card, or in the firewire system, itself. Something. Just too many problems. Just like with DOS and those great old 286 CPUs in the good old (bad old?) days with my very first $2500 5MB hard drive.

Thats right $2500 for 5 Mega Bytes. 1983. And a 24-pin dot matrix printer cost $2300. And neither one worked worth a darned, until the whole mess was redesigned some years later. By then, EVERYTHING had changed to account for the new technologies.

Sigh! I still have copies of those beta test reports. Ah, old times! (Garbage!)

Grazie wrote on 2/20/2003, 1:58 PM

Soo... where does this take me/us . . I can PTT [ no BS ] as long as I connect my cammy prior to pc boot-up. - The system therefore works. It just will not plug and play.

I have gained the knowledge that this is something that most of you who DON't have this problem must be wondering why I've insisted to carry on. If I don't ask - I wont know - If I won't know I won't learn - Learning is all it can ever be about. - I bet there must be many - probably not, most people who don't have this issue would've lost the will to live by now - who have "dipped-in" to this thread think what does it take for me to go away and get on with the rest of my life - NOT a lot . . .

Seeyah

Grazie

hobez wrote on 2/20/2003, 9:58 PM

I have tried to set up my Sony prior to booting up to get the same results as your Canon but It is not recognized unless I turn it off then on while the the system is running.(plug and play). How did you get your Canon on board prior to boot up? Also I have recently gone to multiple monitors with separate video cards and the blue screen is worse (more frequent and lasts longer). I still capture perfectly with no dropped frames. Please advise.

Hobez