Still Unable to print to tape

Cobra71 wrote on 7/18/2002, 11:48 AM
Ok So now I am really frustrated but I have narrowed the problem down to more than likely a hardware problem. I still can't print my project to tape, the video and audio are very choppy. I tried printing to tape off the timeline, then I rendered to an AVI file and tried to print to tape from there, still same results. The AVI file turned out great but I cant get it to tape. I even tried printing to tape with Premiere 6 and the exact same results.
My config is a Canon ZR40, I am using a SoundBlaster audigy card with a firewire port, Windows XP, an Athalon 1700 with 512 Ram and 80G hardrive and of course Vegas 3.0c. I am going out to buy another Firewire card and will try that. If anyone has any other suggestions PLEASE feel free to make suggestions as this is really frustrating.

Any Help is greatly appreciated!
Warren

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HPV wrote on 7/18/2002, 11:55 AM
Sure sounds like a VIA chipset/ PCI bandwidth problem. If your Mobo has a VIA chipset, get the latest 4in1 driver. Do a search on this forum to get a URL for downloading it.

Craig H.
KingCobra71 wrote on 7/18/2002, 4:22 PM
Thanks for the reply, I updated my 4 in 1 drivers yesterday but that doid't fix it. BUT ALAS, the problem is solved. I went out and bought a new firewire card and I added 512 DDR Ram to up my RAM to 1GB. I was able to print the AVI file to DV tape flawlessly. Not sure which upgrade fixed the problem but I am assuming that there was some sort of bug with my Audigy firewire port on my soundcard. I am sure the extra ram doesn't hurt either.
Won't argue with the results, YIIIIIIIIP E I A I can finally put my creations onto tape and share them with the world.......or at least my family

Warren
Jessariah67 wrote on 7/18/2002, 4:54 PM
I bet it was your firewire card. I've only got 256MB RAM and I very rarely have a "glitch" when printing to tape.
HPV wrote on 7/18/2002, 5:04 PM
Only 128MB here on ME and have NEVER had a glitch printing to tape. Gotta love that Intel 850 chipset on my P4 mobo.

Craig H.
KingCobra71 wrote on 7/18/2002, 5:10 PM
Do you think the extra Ram is overkill then or will it help me with bigger edits?
If not I can probably take it back.


Warren
Cheesehole wrote on 7/19/2002, 10:59 PM
if all your doing is video editing and not using too many high res still images in your projects, it's probably overkill, but you can take advantage of it by increasing your Dynamic RAM setting in Vegas to something like 700MB so you can render a lot more frames into RAM.

when you select a short region of time and loop playback, your preivew window's framerate will steadily rise until it gets up to 29.97 (ntsc). that's useful if you are using lots of effects and want to see how things look at full speed. I often loop a transition to see how the timing will really work with the audio. the more RAM you have, the longer your loop can be.