Print to Tape Fixed!! Really I mean it : )

BriceWilliams wrote on 11/6/2002, 6:59 PM

Well it was my Unibrain capture card from Video Factory Deluxe. A well made product, but it caused my ADVC-100 and JVC DVL120 camera to loose frames during PTT in Vidcap3.0 (see print to tape fixed!!) I changed IRQ, Hard drive config, driver etc. I just replaced the 1394 card with a SIIG card. The texas instrument driver was removed and OHCI controller driver installed. Now everything is working well. My family has acually seen me. Countless hours at my computer, tech support, internet. Canopus techie said texas intrument driver for 1394 is a issue with their product. Thought the JVC may have the same snafu. That was it. Thank you all for your help. Thank you DennisSonic from sonic foundry appreciate your help.

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SonyDennis wrote on 11/10/2002, 12:31 AM

Are you sure it was me who helped? Perhaps it was SonicEPM? In any case, the Unibrain card should not have had TI drivers installed in the first place. It's OHCI compliant and the Microsoft drivers should have done the trick. I'm glad to hear it's working for you, and the SIIG is a fine card.
///d@

doboyd wrote on 11/10/2002, 6:30 AM

I have been following this topic, and now find I have a similar problem. I have a ADVC 100, and I just tried my first PTT from Vidcap 3. The video drops out randomly (previewing on TV using preview on device button) while previewing, TV screen just goesa black for a sec or less. Tried rendered file and original capture clip. My PC has a Asus A7M266 motherboard, 2000XP AMD cpu, Win XP pro, 768 DDR RAM, 30G HDD ATA100 7200 rpm DMA enabled (mode 5 I think) for OS and apps, an 80G HDD as above for capture etc.

I got around this by PTT from the timeline (opened new rendered file in new project), Vegas prerendered etc then printed to tape, working so far (I'm watching). I think the prerendered file would be on C: by default, so I don't know if this is related to the problem Sab mentioned in this thread earlier. I did not actually print to VHS tape as intended to see if the drop outs were in preview only (but should not do this anyway).

I have disabled my network connection.

I have to try :
1. disable 1394 network connection
2. disable auto protect on Nortons System Works (antivirus)
3. try vicap PTT with file on another drive or folder?
4. another firewire card (using an Creative Audigy DE sound card with 1394 port to ADVC)
5. try to PTT from vidcap through/to my JVC camera (not use the ADVC100)
6. Anyone else have any suggestions??

I can capture both DV and analogue fine, no dropped frames.

BriceWilliams wrote on 11/14/2002, 5:45 PM

When I installed the unibrain card, windows selected TI drivers for it. I tried to change the driver with the unibrain card with out success. The SIIG card , when installed and reboot, windows installed "PCI OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller". Everything is working well. It may have been SonicEPM. Please thank him/her for me. I'm holding on to the Unibrain card (very well made)and will try again when I'm not under dead lines for my video clips. Good luck doboyd, hope you will find the problem soon. I know how this stuff can own you, to much mind time for me.

Lajko wrote on 11/15/2002, 12:32 AM

I had older messages where I posted my solutions for PTT. In case they're no longer there...

Basically it is SPEED SPEED SPEED

1. TI drivers hosed everything for a week, like everyone else. Once back to MSDV drivers things didn't crash.
2. Shut down things. Pull the network/DSL/Cablemodem plug. Shut down virus software and all other background tasks. That made things go much better
3. SPEED: hard drive IDE controller. My system has 2 different controllers. One IS faster no matter what drive is connected. So when doing PTT from C:? problems. From E:? Never a problem. That drive was on the faster IDE controller.
4. Keep temp files and renders on physically different drives and preferably NOT your Windows drive as Windows likes to do things and when it does, it slows down data access from the drive for what YOU want (i.e. the video files). I have temp files on H,I or J and final rendes are on D or E. They are different physical hard drives on my system. On your system, if you only have one physical drive then get another one and do PTT from it.

So hopefully these suggestions will help solve the PTT problems. In short - it all comes down to SPEED. Not sofwtare, not VV versions, not camcordes but the basic thing called SPEED -- getting that data from the hard drive fast enough. One interruption in the firewire due to any delay in getting the data from the drive will cause garbled or black output for a second or more.