Well until further notice I seem to have driven the gremlins away.
I've done some further experiments. What I held onto during all this time was the fact that sometime back I had successfully PTTed a piece. The only difference between then and now was that then I was rendering a heavily edited - text, dissolves, overlays and so on. Recently - last 4 months - while I had been experimenting with VF PTT facility and getting "drop-out", this had been with brand new, recently captured footage, yes, via my Dazzle Hollywood Bridge. I then re-rendered the same footage, without any edits or splits or whatever - still drop-out. Soooo.. I took a recently captured fresh AVI file - it failed, drop-out - and then made some simple edits, ie only making some "S" key splits in the 4gb length. Rendered this [clip R1], and as a test sent it through Studio 7, and it worked. Retried same re-rendered clip, R1, through VF Print-To-Tape and it worked too, no dropout. I will continue on this approach until something else throws a spanner in the works!
There are presently 4 conclusions I draw from this:
1. My set-up is quite capable in handling the PTT procedure with a 4gb AVI via my Maxtor firewire drives etc etc , and yes I still have WinME
2. Re-rendering newly captured footage without any splits or edits does not solve the problem.
3. Applying splits or edits in the raw captured AVI, and then re-rendering, can only be making the timecodes more consistent, vital for sending to tape
4. The Dazzle will capture DV, but in my humble opinion, I need to be wary of the resultant AVI file potentially not being "timecode-consistent".
Okay Vfers - in rendering an edited AVI does this produce more precise/consistent timecodes? It must be making brand new ones, at least. I don't know enough about the timecode structure to be assured this is in actual fact what is happening.
Please respond - even if it is a "Grazie, go and look at this website!" response.
Thanks for all your patience,
Grazie
I've done some further experiments. What I held onto during all this time was the fact that sometime back I had successfully PTTed a piece. The only difference between then and now was that then I was rendering a heavily edited - text, dissolves, overlays and so on. Recently - last 4 months - while I had been experimenting with VF PTT facility and getting "drop-out", this had been with brand new, recently captured footage, yes, via my Dazzle Hollywood Bridge. I then re-rendered the same footage, without any edits or splits or whatever - still drop-out. Soooo.. I took a recently captured fresh AVI file - it failed, drop-out - and then made some simple edits, ie only making some "S" key splits in the 4gb length. Rendered this [clip R1], and as a test sent it through Studio 7, and it worked. Retried same re-rendered clip, R1, through VF Print-To-Tape and it worked too, no dropout. I will continue on this approach until something else throws a spanner in the works!
There are presently 4 conclusions I draw from this:
1. My set-up is quite capable in handling the PTT procedure with a 4gb AVI via my Maxtor firewire drives etc etc , and yes I still have WinME
2. Re-rendering newly captured footage without any splits or edits does not solve the problem.
3. Applying splits or edits in the raw captured AVI, and then re-rendering, can only be making the timecodes more consistent, vital for sending to tape
4. The Dazzle will capture DV, but in my humble opinion, I need to be wary of the resultant AVI file potentially not being "timecode-consistent".
Okay Vfers - in rendering an edited AVI does this produce more precise/consistent timecodes? It must be making brand new ones, at least. I don't know enough about the timecode structure to be assured this is in actual fact what is happening.
Please respond - even if it is a "Grazie, go and look at this website!" response.
Thanks for all your patience,
Grazie