Problem with capture... again

FuTz wrote on 6/9/2003, 9:20 AM
I'm trying to capture a tape on a ext FiWire hard drive dedicated to capture (no OS, no other program, etc... just plain video clips).
I get this message again and again: Capture Complete window: no video was captured. And I can click on Done from there and try again... no success so far...
Could this be a conflict between my cam and my ext Hard drive on same FiWire PCI card?

Also: I can't defrag this ext FiWire hard drive with WinXP. Why? It simply refuses to work! I looked in Control Pannel through system Management (drives) and this FiWire drive doesn't show up... my intent was being able to look at the "read only" and other switches...
????

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jetdv wrote on 6/9/2003, 9:55 AM
In the capture program, Options - Preferences on the Capture tab, do you have "Minimum Clip Length" checked? If so, uncheck it and try again.
FuTz wrote on 6/9/2003, 10:14 AM

It doesn't work. I also tried 0sec and 1 sec with the box checked... none of this works.
I get a Windows message at the right-bottom of screen that says I have no space available or corrupted files or a "read only" device that bugs me after trying to capture every time... Seems like a FiWire setting not ok, ain't it?
What's unusual is that I captured on this same drive last week with no problem. And usually, when there's not enough space on disk, the VidCap tells it when it's reached the point that, actually, no space is available on disk: it doesn't "detects" it in advance...
satish wrote on 6/9/2003, 10:18 AM
Futz, Checkout this thread
FuTz wrote on 6/9/2003, 11:12 AM
OK, now I changed a setting concerning FiWire drive: you can actually choose to be able to disconnect the ext. unit with or without passing by Windows, checking a box named "disconnect 1394 ext drive" (or something like this) and finally unplug the unit. I chose to pass by windows, rebooted and it works. Except if I capture directly on this drive (the external one) I get lots of dropped frames now. So I capture on another internal drive that's got 6 Go of free space, then transfer the clips on my ext. drive. Not ideal but it works.
Question is the same though: why did it worked and not NOW?

Satish, I'll sure read the post you suggested. And, by the way, how's it going with the rotoscopy app? :)
DGrob wrote on 6/9/2003, 12:18 PM
I can't say about a PCI card, but I did have a problem very similar when I used a PCMCIA Belkin card with a 2-port 1394 adaptor. Couldn't import from camera on one port and output back out to an external HD. Got some posts that indicated the combined data flow in/out might overwhelm the card.

Currently capture in thru a PCI 4-pin 1394 and route back out thru the Belkin PCMCIA 1394 to the HD. Flawless captures.

Good luck. DGrob