PRINT TO TAPE PROBLEMS

SMC1 wrote on 8/30/2002, 3:38 PM

OKAY, I JUST STARTED USING VF AND I LOVE IT. I TINKERED ABIT WITH VIDEO STUDIO BEFORE. WELL, WHENEVER I WOULD PRINT TO TAPE I END UP WITH "STAGGERING". AS MY SONY D8 IS RECORDING I AM WATCHING THE VIEW SCREEN. SOMETIMES THE SCREEN WILL GO BOXY (DIGITIZED). SOMETIMES NOT. I HAVE BEEN READING A LOT ON THE FORUM PAGES FROM YOUR POSTS. THEY ARE VERY HELPFUL BY THE WAY. SO WHAT I HAVE DONE IS. 1. ENABLED THE HD. 2. I CLOSE OUT ALL OTHER APPLICATIONS. 3. TURNED OFF THE SCREEN SAVER. 4. THEN I PRAY A LOT. I HAVE GOTTEN 1 CLEAN RECORDING (20 MINUTES OF VIDEO AND STILLS WITH MUSIC), BUT MY WIFE WANTS ME TO ADD SOME STUFF SO NOW I AM BACK TO PTT PROBLEMS. I AM RUNNING ON WINDOWS ME AND DO NOT HAVE A DEDICATED HD YET (PURCHASING A WD HD 120GB 7200RPM 8MB CACHE IN A WEEK OR 2). ANY SUGGESTIONS?

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the_harper wrote on 8/31/2002, 7:47 AM

Have you defragged the hard drive? How much free space is on it? What speed CPU, what type and how much RAM?

Rob

SMC wrote on 8/31/2002, 9:18 PM

I HAVE DEFRAGGED AND THERE IS ABOUT 8 GB LEFT. THE SPEED IS 800mhz AND RAM IS 128.

the_harper wrote on 9/1/2002, 8:51 AM

Hopefully someone with even more experience of VF can comment but perhaps the problems you are experiencing are from a slow hard drive. Even defragged, a 5400rpm drive which is trying to write DV to tape with the OS on the same drive is probably pushing it. I have never had issues with drive speed because the drive I store the video on is a dual 7200rpm RAID stripe array. Sorry, that is probably greek to you but the upshot is that it is FAST. Hopefully the new drive you have on order with solve the problems. Put it on a different cable if possible - if your OS drive and CDROM are on the Primary IDE port, put the new drive on the Secondary port so it's a completely different cable.

Rob