Some good news and bad news to report. First the bad. On my last two projects in VF, several segments in the middle of the program have acguired a "strobe-like" effect and I havent been able to figure out why it happened. I captured and edited everything just like normal. When I printed to tape I realized the defect. It's so subtle that its very difficult to notice on the preview window, so I had failed to realize that it's actually occuring to the clip on the timeline. The original clips dont contain the problem and carefully replacing the clips on the timeline with the same clips fixed the problem. I was very careful not to accidently stretch or compress the speed of the clips during the original edit. One project was captured from mini-dv on a dv deck, the other was captured from a Digital 8 camera. Each project was captured to a different harddrive, each of which was separate from the OS drive. Anyone else seen this problem? I'm running Windows 2000 on a PIII, now with 3 harddrives.
Which leads me to part of my good news. I recently bought a firewire enclosure and installed a spare 20gig harddrive in it. Connecting to the computer went perfectly and it was by far the easiest HD installation i've ever done. I highly recommend firewire drives as the way to expand your system (with one exception, see below). In case you're wondering, the strobing problem first occured on my original media drive before this installation. It occured the second time after this installation when I captured to the firewire drive. The only problem I've had with the drive was that the system refused to print the rendered file back out to tape. It seemed that, despite having no problems capturing from firewire and writing to the disk via firewire on the same firewire card, the system couldnt read the file back through firewire and out via firewire to the deck. There was no response, like the system was confused on how to work with the two streams on one card when going back out to tape. I simply copied the rendered file to my internal media HD and then printed to tape normally. Anyone running into this one or have a solution? I'm using a Pinnacle dv card with two external firewire ports.
Lastly, I just installed Vegas on Friday and so far havent seen any problems, but I wanted to try and fix these issues in VF because I'll be moving it to another machine. Thanks in advance, Jay
Which leads me to part of my good news. I recently bought a firewire enclosure and installed a spare 20gig harddrive in it. Connecting to the computer went perfectly and it was by far the easiest HD installation i've ever done. I highly recommend firewire drives as the way to expand your system (with one exception, see below). In case you're wondering, the strobing problem first occured on my original media drive before this installation. It occured the second time after this installation when I captured to the firewire drive. The only problem I've had with the drive was that the system refused to print the rendered file back out to tape. It seemed that, despite having no problems capturing from firewire and writing to the disk via firewire on the same firewire card, the system couldnt read the file back through firewire and out via firewire to the deck. There was no response, like the system was confused on how to work with the two streams on one card when going back out to tape. I simply copied the rendered file to my internal media HD and then printed to tape normally. Anyone running into this one or have a solution? I'm using a Pinnacle dv card with two external firewire ports.
Lastly, I just installed Vegas on Friday and so far havent seen any problems, but I wanted to try and fix these issues in VF because I'll be moving it to another machine. Thanks in advance, Jay