printing to DV

azilker wrote on 3/4/2002, 10:21 AM

I'm trying to print to a Sony mini-DV cam from a Vegas project. It pre-renders fine, plays fine on the preview screen but in the window of the DV cam, It shows a gray screen with a couple of "Pixel" squares showing my video behind it. Si it seems like it's atrtempting to record, but breaking up and just putting the gray in there. Any thoughts?

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Rahl wrote on 3/4/2002, 10:52 AM

Yeah, it might be IRQ problems, or it might be that your hard drive is way too fragmented. Here's what you do...

1.)Defrag your system.

2.)Then go back into your project and render the whole project into AVI

3.)Lower your screen resolution to the lowest possible form (left click on desktop, then properties, then go to the settings tab and put everything in it's lowest form)

4.)Then go to print to DV

Should work better... If not check your IRQ's
-André Barriault

deef wrote on 3/4/2002, 3:55 PM

Make sure DMA is enabled on your hard drive/controller, that #0.

sonicboom wrote on 3/4/2002, 8:25 PM

i read all the time in this forum about "irq" and "dma"
what do these terms means?
also, where can i check to make sure my irq is enabled and my dma is set to #0
thanks all
sb

deef wrote on 3/4/2002, 11:05 PM

Actually I meant that should be the first thing to check. If using Win98SE or WinMe it will be listed in Device Manager's hard drive properties. If using Win2k or WinXP then in Device Manager it will be listed under the hard drive controllers properties.

Chienworks wrote on 3/5/2002, 7:43 AM

IRQ = Interrupt ReQuest vector

Devices that need attention of the processor are assigned an interrupt channel and can send a signal through this saying "take care of me now".

DMA = Direct Memory Access

(I'm not as clear on this one, but ...) Older computer systems require the processor to handle all memory access. This can be slow. Newer systems allow i/o devices to access memory directly. This is much faster.