Vegas Pro 8 on laptop with firewire drive

Cliff Etzel wrote on 11/4/2007, 8:07 AM
Ran into one of my first issues with VP8 on my laptop this last week.

I was trying to ingest and edit footage I had shot back in my hotel room and ran into this issue:

1) Capturing from camera's firewire connection to my external firewire drive locked it up solid - not sure if it is a hardware or software issue.

2) My camera was attached to the internal firewire connection on my Dell D400 laptop. My external firewire drive was attached via a SYBA PCMCIA 2 port firewire card. The Seagate 320GB sata drive is enclosed in an approved multimedia enclosure that supports firewire and esata connectivity.

The workaround was to capture to my internal hard drive and then transfer the footage to the external drive, but then once that was completed, I still had issues with Vegas working with the footage from the external firewire drive.

As a result, I couldn't work with the footage until I returned back home to my desktop and transferred the footage.

Any ideas what might be going on?

Cliff Etzel
bluprojekt

Comments

Laurence wrote on 11/4/2007, 9:11 AM
I use USB2 all the time with no problems either capturing or editing. I've also used Firewire with no problems. Is your drive a 7200 RPM model? Maybe your PCMCIA firewire card is not up to the task.
deusx wrote on 11/4/2007, 9:37 AM
I know this doesn't help at all, but it could be anything.

Firewire cable, bad hard drive, bad enclosure, bad firewire card/chipset, firewire down to 100mbs speed. There was an issue with XP, I think SP2. Never encountered it personally, but after the pack was released, firwire supposedly would not work properly until you installed a fix.

You've probably tried the most obvious thing, trying different cables , and a different drive ( in a different enclosure if it still gave you problems in the other one )
Cliff Etzel wrote on 11/4/2007, 12:52 PM
Firewire cable is brand new, Hard drive as well as the enclosure - it maybe the firewire card as the drive works fine on my desktop from what I can tell. I seem to remember something about having a shared bus for firewire can cause problems - anyone know if this correct?

Cliff Etzel
bluprojekt
deusx wrote on 11/4/2007, 7:12 PM
It could.

Check that you are getting full speed on your firewire. Download HD Tach and run it, may help diagnose.

New cable doesn't mean it's good, but if you tested both, the cable and same drice on the desktop, and they performed fine, then I guess it is.