Video Capture...Very Odd Audio. Suggestions?

Denicio wrote on 8/9/2004, 8:54 AM

I just built a new computer system for my studio over the weekend.
In doing so, i had to reinstall everything.

Well, i captured some Analog video/audio from my old Hi 8 into my Canopus ADVC 100. Here is what is odd. The speaker on the camcorder plays the audio just fine, but the capture window shows the video fine, but the audio is pitched down......which seems like a sample rate mismatch, BUT it seems all my sample rates and word clock are resolved to 44.1.
THEN when i drag the video into vegas to watch and edit, it plays the audio just fine. Its creeping me out. What could be the cause of this?
My old system never had this problem.

My new system is built on the Asus p4c800E- Deluxe, with 1 gig of corsair ram and a P4 3 gig processor.
But all my old audio cards and video capture cards are the same.
I have a master word clock in my studio and all my audio stuff is resolved, although my Canopus box does not have word clock in or out.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Brock Landers

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AlistairLock wrote on 8/9/2004, 9:08 AM

I have a similar odd thing on my PC.

The capture program recognises my REM Digi96 whatever (not at my computer, can't remember the proper name), and the motherboard sound card, a SoundMax something or other.

The REM soundcard is always greyed out, so when I monitor audio, it plays from the soundmax, although audio is going in through the Canopus ACE DVIO. (if I'm digitising Hi8 or VHS)

The sound sometimes, though not always breaks up and sometimes stutters, and used to worry me. If I disable the SoundMax, so sound is "forced" through the REM, the sound breakup is even worse. Audio on playback is always OK, and is always recorded at 16bit 48k.

I don't know why this happens, so, as Basil Exposition said in "The Spy Who Shagged Me", 'Don't worry about it Austin'

Hope you find this reassuring.