sending back from the timeline

tinklady wrote on 1/23/2003, 12:02 PM
I have Sony Vaio 512MB-Ram, 40GB-hard drive. Pentium3
It will allow me to send back to camera about 10 mins or so of already rendered clips without a flaw but when try over 15min of clips at one time it starts freezing frames and becomes jerky in places on the sent back tape. It plays fine on the preview from the computer.
Any Ideas why?
Thanks

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Paul_Holmes wrote on 1/23/2003, 1:08 PM
If you're only using one hard drive, the system drive, to do everything, you might be running into fragmented files and operating system overhead. You might try using Tools | Print to tape to preview long selections, using the manual setting. Just start the print, but don't set your camcorder in record. This is something I just learned recently. Helps me preview a long section of video without having to actually record it to tape. (Of course this also means that it will all have to be rendered before it starts to print).
TorS wrote on 1/24/2003, 12:52 PM
Good advise from Paul (he's almost half Norwegian).
But even if that isn't the problem in your case, it's good advise to have one disk for the system and one for data - especially when it comes to things involving sound, which very often needs a continuous data flow that must not be interrupted by Windows writing to the disk.
You can pick up a 20 gig disk for very little money these days, that could hold your system, but since you have your system on the 40, the easiest would be to keep it there and get a new 40, 60 or more beside it. Defrag often, but not in the middele of important projects.

Tor