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HPV wrote on 12/17/2001, 11:07 PM
My Pinnacle Software has no problems, but VV3 comes out with distortion, patches and breaks in the screen.
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What Pinnacle software? I have Studio DV loaded along with Vegas 2 and all is good. This might help -Some time ago I got tired of seeing all DV files listed as Pinnacle, so I went into Control Panel/Sound-Multimedia/Devices/Video Compression Codecs/ and right clicked every Pinnacle codec and removed them. Pinnacle software still works fine after, it uses the MS DV codec.

Hope that does it for you.

Craig H.
Duovoice wrote on 12/19/2001, 1:56 PM
I cannot print to tape with my vv3 without the frames coming out distorted. Instead of using vv3, I use Pinnacle studio 7. Is there a fix I can use?
pelvis wrote on 12/19/2001, 7:41 PM
Are you rendering to the Pinnacle DV codec during the print to tape process? I suspect the Pinnacle codec is somehow involved-
RichR wrote on 12/20/2001, 7:30 AM
Print to DV tape has not been a problem at all for me.
I'm not using any Pinnacle product.
deef wrote on 12/20/2001, 9:19 AM
Please search thru this forum for mucho related info to this, others have posted several issues to be aware of.

That said, here's a quick refresher:

-check out this FAQ:
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/support/SupportProduct.asp?FamilyID=30&Family=Vegas&TopicID=89&DetailID=879

-MAKE SURE you have DMA enabled for the drive that the source file is on.
-make sure you have UDMA 100 drivers installed, if your mobo supports it (usually on the CD or the mfg website)
-disable ACPI if running Win2k and you have all devices sharing one IRQ
Duovoice wrote on 12/22/2001, 2:10 PM
This may sound silly, but how do I -MAKE SURE I have DMA enabled for the drive that the source file is on.
I'm not familiar with this at all.
Thanks.
deef wrote on 12/22/2001, 4:43 PM
In Device Manager, under Win9x/Me it will be listed under the specific hard drive properties, under Win2k/XP it will be listed under the hard drive controller. For example, on my WinXP system it's under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers->Primary IDE Channel->Advanced Settings->Transfer Mode->DMA if available.
Caruso wrote on 12/23/2001, 5:37 AM
This may sound silly as well, but, how do I disable ACPI? I read a post by billybk dated 11/12/01 in which he explained that one should invoke "Standard PC" mode, not ACPI, but he did not elaborate on exactly when one should invoke it and what keystrokes are necessary.

Somewhere I read that you hit F5 during install (why, oh why would Microsoft not make this more apparent to users, beats me) to make the choices appear (during the time when XP install is analyzing your hardware).

Anyhow, I was able, during a "repair" installation of XP, to get a selection menu to appear where I could select "Standard PC" or something close to those words. I still don't know (as in really "know"!!) that I have succeeded.

My system seems to be working well, and I love Vegas, but would like to confirm (and lay out for all of us less C-literate types) just how one proves that ACPI is not ruling ones machine.

Thanks for any replies.

Caruso