(Hello, i originally tacked this on my other thread (the rsDvCap one), but i think no one saw it. Im still unable to solve the following- please pass on any advice that may occur to you, thanks!!!)
Hello again- well, i learned my lessons, and got a demo of vv3 to play with, and yes, the capture section is much easier to deal with than the silly RsDvCap ever was. And, i rendered to NTSC DV format avi, thanks for the heads up there. And, its **almost** working now.. the camera is recording the avi to tape without trouble...
EXCEPT that i cant avoid getting dropped out frames about every 6 seconds, like the file cant make it to the camera consistently. You see a second of the black screen with the sonic foundry logo, then it goes back to printing... and yes it prints the drop out to tape. bah.
So, i went thru the help menus and discovered the options --> properties --> print to tape menu, and adjusted the delay time, up to its max of 20,000 miliseconds (thats 20 seconds?) (i didnt want to take any chances) ...i figured the bigger buffer the better...
and: it definately helped, but its still has frequent breif interruptions, and that of course still yields a useless product at the end of the day. i feel like i need like a 40 second delay, but its not available..or is it???
Any suggestions on how to improve the signal flow via the firewire? am i having a common problem here?
i have tried rendering at "draft" quality as well, just to see if that made a difference, and the same thing happened to that clip too.
one note is that when the automatic fan kicks in on my laptop, it really wreaks havoc. it has a history of sort of pausing operations (in any application) for a moment while it turns itself on...(this is a dell latitude running windows ME) perhaps theres a setting somewhere to disable the automatic fan thing? (at this point id risk overheating just to get this project in the can!)...but even when the fan is dormant, the stuttering still happens in print to tape. or perhaps theres some sort of system-wide buffer i can tweak?
thanks for the advice so far, im so close i can taste it!!
-karl
Hello again- well, i learned my lessons, and got a demo of vv3 to play with, and yes, the capture section is much easier to deal with than the silly RsDvCap ever was. And, i rendered to NTSC DV format avi, thanks for the heads up there. And, its **almost** working now.. the camera is recording the avi to tape without trouble...
EXCEPT that i cant avoid getting dropped out frames about every 6 seconds, like the file cant make it to the camera consistently. You see a second of the black screen with the sonic foundry logo, then it goes back to printing... and yes it prints the drop out to tape. bah.
So, i went thru the help menus and discovered the options --> properties --> print to tape menu, and adjusted the delay time, up to its max of 20,000 miliseconds (thats 20 seconds?) (i didnt want to take any chances) ...i figured the bigger buffer the better...
and: it definately helped, but its still has frequent breif interruptions, and that of course still yields a useless product at the end of the day. i feel like i need like a 40 second delay, but its not available..or is it???
Any suggestions on how to improve the signal flow via the firewire? am i having a common problem here?
i have tried rendering at "draft" quality as well, just to see if that made a difference, and the same thing happened to that clip too.
one note is that when the automatic fan kicks in on my laptop, it really wreaks havoc. it has a history of sort of pausing operations (in any application) for a moment while it turns itself on...(this is a dell latitude running windows ME) perhaps theres a setting somewhere to disable the automatic fan thing? (at this point id risk overheating just to get this project in the can!)...but even when the fan is dormant, the stuttering still happens in print to tape. or perhaps theres some sort of system-wide buffer i can tweak?
thanks for the advice so far, im so close i can taste it!!
-karl