Problems Capturing

jimingo wrote on 4/26/2009, 6:49 PM

I used to be able to capture footage from my HDV camera with Vegas. I can still capture the footage but Vegas get's hung up on the clips that are captured (drops to very low playback rates) and can not build the audio peaks (well, it actually builds the peaks but not correctly, and the audio cuts out throughout the clips). The clips that I capture now have many artifacts and do not play correctly in any program (including Vegas). I've tried everything I could think of...I tried a different hard drive, baught a new firewire cable, uninstalled and reinstalled Vegas, tried capturing with different cameras, tried capturing with HDVSplit, but I still get the same exact results. Every clip I capture now is messed up. I do have old clips on my computer that I captured a few weeks ago and they are perfect. It's just the new capured clips that have problems. And I also want to say that there is nothing wrong with the original footage...it's only after it is captured that there are problems with it. I have captured many many hours worth of footage and never had a problem like this. I have no idea what's going on and I'm hoping someone can help.

Thanks
-Jim

Comments

ushere wrote on 4/26/2009, 7:04 PM

listing your equipment would help, as would version.

leslie

jimingo wrote on 4/26/2009, 7:07 PM

Vista 64 & Vegas 8.0c
Core 2 Duo & 4 Gigs Ram
Canon XHA1 and HV20 (I've tried capturing with three different XHA1's and a HV20 with the same result)

The thing is, I've been using this setup for a year and have had no problems like this until last week.

-Jim

jimingo wrote on 4/26/2009, 7:33 PM

I figured it out. I had an external Western Digital drive attached to my computer. I wasn't capturing to the drive but for some reason it was interfering with my capture. I simply unplugged the drive and capturing works again.

-Jim

ushere wrote on 4/26/2009, 7:50 PM

enjoy! what doesn't kill us, makes us stronger - but usually with a lot less hair.....

leslie

alltheseworlds wrote on 4/26/2009, 8:43 PM

Thanks for reporting back on the solution. Too often there's no followup, or even worse you get "I solved it!" and no explanation.

Christian de Godzinsky wrote on 4/27/2009, 1:59 AM

It seems that Vista over time becomes slower (also) with file transfers. I had initially transfer speeds to external USB drives at the level of 30Mbytes/s. Nowadays, it is barely 12MByte/s. There is something seriously wrong, if your operating system is not able to handle purely basic tasks - as moving data from one point to another. Hopefully there is a fix in the SP2, that was promised already to be published 2th of April (this year). Still waiting...

The OS automatically and gradually slows down the file access to HD's in the even of a timeout. Some disks spin down after a while, and to my understanding this can cause Vista to configure itself for slower file access speeds. This situation is not restored by itself. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

There might be more info about this if you search for the word "PIO more" in the forum.

I recendly started to get capture problems (capturing over firewire) to and externla HD - even if the HD at 12Mbyte/s should be fast enough for this purpose. Before (for more than 9 months) everything worked fine.

Switching the capture to use one of the internal sATA disks fixed the capure errors for me completely. Well - not actually fixed - but at least it is a remedy until microsoft fixes the original reason for this stupidity.

Christian