Vegas will be work with firewire HD's?

ramallo wrote on 5/11/2002, 7:22 AM

Hello,

I have a strange problem, I use the Vegas on a P4 laptop (Dell 8200), and bougth a external firewire 7200 rpm hard disk (Lacie Studio drive), for use for data.

I can capture on the Firewire HD without any problem, but I can't work with this HD for edit. If I open a project, I can play this, but in a few seconds (not the same amount of time) the system freezes, and show this menssage:

"An Error ocurred while starting playback. Unable to mix audio. The operation time out"

If I open the same project from C: disk (laptop hd), all works ok.

I tried with two different sound cards, with Microsoft signatured drivers (This system runs with win XP Pro), the HD scores on sandra 22000, if I open the clips with the Windows Movie Maker (Clips on firewire) all works without any problem. I check the transfer of the firewire HD (With big size files) with the performace monitor, and works well, without any drop in the transfer.

Any idea?, Vegas will be work with firewire HD's?, any solution?

Of course, the firewire inbuild card are OHCI compliant based on Texas instrument chip (But I tried with a cardbus card from ADS Pyro with the same results). I have the same problems with Acid (But no problems with SoundForge)

Thanks in advance.

Regards

P.D. Vegas Video 3.0a build 107, Acid Pro 3.0g build 365

Comments

jerryd wrote on 5/11/2002, 2:32 PM

Don't know about your particular problem, but I use an 80 gig QPS on the same
pyro firewire card that I use to capture with Vegas. Works like a charm.

ramallo wrote on 5/11/2002, 4:21 PM

Hello,

Thanks for you response, I don't know where is the problem, but the only one applications with firewire troubles are Vegas and Acid (All works ok) . Will be a Windows XP pro problem, or a Lacie problem, or a Vegas problem, or a Dell problem, or a combination of all (I need a way for resolve the trouble). I don't know, but is very strange

The two sound cards works with WDM drivers, are a Sound Devices USBPre 1.5 and a Crystal CS4205.

I tried with the HD formated in NTFS and Fat32 without results

Regards

Control_Z wrote on 5/12/2002, 7:36 PM

I can avoid this by defragging the drive overnight after capture.

ramallo wrote on 5/13/2002, 10:27 AM

Hello,

Thanks for your advice.

The HD is always defragmented (My first step), I'm thinking if the problem will be by the ACPI mode (A lot of devices shares the IRQ 11, like video card, USB and Firewire). If I open the video files with the Windows Movie Maker, all runs ok. I only have problems with Vegas and Acid, is very bizarre trouble.

Regards

kkolbo wrote on 5/13/2002, 2:51 PM

I use a Dell Inspiron 3500 and a QPS 120 GIG firewire drive. It runs through a CompUSA generic Firewire PCMCIA card. I have had no problems and actually the performance was improved this way.
K

Arks wrote on 5/14/2002, 12:28 AM

I have similar problems using a ADS firewire kit and a 80 GB HD to my PC. Some, not all, of the clips on the 1394 drive freeze once in awhile on playback on the timeline and trimmer. It freezes for a few seconds, then plays again... its very annoying. Rendering works fine, although a few renders took longer than usual because it was froze on the clips that were freezing before, but the final render was fine. I was going to defrag the HD, but it tells me I dont need to. Should I still? I'm about to acquire another 80 GB LACIE 1394 drive as well (leftover from a MAC final cut pro class I had)... SO, I guess I can test that one out when its available to go PC.