Very pissed at Print To Tape!!!

lnetzel wrote on 9/19/2003, 2:30 AM
This might seem long and unnessessary but there's a question in the end and for those of you who care nto about the back ground go directly down in the message and read the question.

Yesterday me and my band had a very important LIve performance and I have made some background videos that I was gonna playback from my MiniDV cam on stage and project with a canon onto a blanket. For some reason I have MANY framedrops when I tried print to tape and it was unseeable (I think my W2k installation was old and dirty) so I started on a new fresh WIndows w2k pro installation and ONLY installed Vegas 4.0d... BUT the installation program wanted to have DirectX 8.1 so I hade to install that first. Now The only thing you can download from Microsoft in the LATEST directx so I installed that one, 9.0b and then I could install VEgas 4.0d

Then everything seemed to work fine. I started Vegas, went to the Print To Tape application and there the most annoying thing happened, I was not allowed to Load files into the Print TO Tape Cue. AS soon as I have choosen the files I wanted to add to the list It said that vegas needed to close because of an error... and then the whole thing shutdown.. over and over again.

This resulted in US NOT having a background video show in the performance. And I'm very pissed off cause it was a real big deal for us.

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Does not Print To tape work with DirectX 9.0b ?

/Lars Netzeö

Comments

Grazie wrote on 9/19/2003, 6:01 AM
lnetzel Nasty! - Have you tried starting from basics, by importing a small section of fresh DV and then PTTing that directly back out? Let's get some basic "stuff" outta the way first . . . From the "feel" of your post, that which was the problem has still remiained - even after your reinstall. ANything changed to your pc in the interim? I'm presuming you've been PTTing for sometime now - soooo... what's changed? In the meantime, let's get that basic test done - yeah? I'm very foprtunate in as much I know very little about what goes on under my pc's bonnet - I have a built in blind faith that s/w and V4 works . . . . this has it's drawbacks, but at least I think I know my own limitations - yeah?

Do the test and let's see, yeah?

Sorry . .not a good thing to happen. I'd also suggest that if you do have another PTT software just try it out.

Regards

Grazie
lnetzel wrote on 9/19/2003, 7:03 AM
No heres what happened:

I have had no problems with anything until yesterday... computer from my Panasonix MX500 was fine and Print to tape was fine.. I have done this Before...

Yesyterday it just did'nt work so Ifgigured that I have so much crap on my WQindows Installation so It's time for a clean new fresh installation.. so that's what I did and used Direct X 9.0b instead of 8.1 that I had on my first installation.

The only thing I installed was Windows w2k, DirectX 9.0 and Vegas 4.0d...

BUT The problem here was not the same...I never even got sso far O could test the Print to tape on my fresh installation cause teh vidcap.exe gave an error and closed whenever I tried loading the Print to Tape list with anything... so..

1. On my First installation with Direct X 8.1 it gave me framedrop.. but I'm sure this was the fault of a crappy and dirty windows. So I have no question about this.,

2. On my fresh installation wqith DirectX 9.0 the vidcap.exe closed before I even had time to try to print tape...

So my question that the previous writer did not answer remains.. does Vegas 4.0d Print To Tape work okay with DirectX 9.0?
Grazie wrote on 9/19/2003, 7:06 AM
lnetzel - Thanks for explaning further - I appreciate your candour . . .

Grazie
David_Kuznicki wrote on 9/19/2003, 7:40 AM
-- Does Vegas 4 work with DirectX 9?

It should. I had a somewhat similar situation pop up last week-- I swapped out hard drives, installed Win2000 on the new drive & had to get DirectX 9. I installed it yesterday, got new serial numbers from SoFo & printed to tape from the timeline.

I printed without any problems or dropped frames. Now it was only about a minute long test, so something COULD have popped up later down the road... but you said that VidCap was crashing right off the bat, correct?

But, to answer your question-- I used Vegas 4 & DX9 without issue. Sorry!

David.
donp wrote on 9/19/2003, 8:47 AM
I have DX 8.1 or something like that and capture to a separate 60 gig drive. The early versions of DX9 gave my PC fits so I dropped it and backed up to 8.
Just did two PTT's yetserday, to a Sony TRV-350 D8 camera via 1394 connection. No issues, Vegas controlled the camera perfectly.

I need to add my op sys is XP Pro, and IEEE-1394 in/out is a Canopus ADVC-1394.
lnetzel wrote on 9/19/2003, 9:39 AM
Thankx for your answer... then My problem is very strange!

I actually ONLY installed these things:

Windows 2000 Professional
Direct X 9.0
Vegas Video 4.0d

And the Vidcap.exe crashes EVERY time I try to load the Print to tape list. I will try to add the Service Pack to Windows 2000 but I doubt it'll change things!

/Lars
alman wrote on 9/20/2003, 9:58 AM
I have a similar problem with the VidCap program.

I have DirectX 9b on my Windows XP box. For me it only crashes when I close the vidcap window, but I can capture fine, and when it does crash it doesn't take the whole application down with it.

I thought my problem was related to the fact that I have the DirectX 9.0b SDK installed with the debug libraries, but it sounds like the same issue you're having. One nice thing about the debug libraries is that I can ignore an ASSERT failure if I want to. When I do that I can usually carry-on working with no problems.

If you can roll back to DX8 that might do it for you. I unfortuantely do not have that option. I might be able to scrounge up the end-user redistributable of DX8 for you if you can't find it.