VV3c, Athlon, and Print to Tape

EArrigotti wrote on 7/26/2002, 7:41 PM
I have been searching through the postings because I can not get either the preview on external monitor nor the print to tape function to work.

I recently upgraded from a PIII to an Athlon 2000 while simultaneously upgrading to a fresh install of VV3c (latest build).

On the old system, I had no trouble. On the new system, I can import video with VIDCAP, I have complete control over the camera via the computer interface, but when I go to print to tape and/or preview on external monitor, I cannot do it.

In researching the posts, I noticed that others with Athlon processors and the latest update of VV3c have had similar problems.

Any insight folks? I am ready to try uninstalling and going back to a previous build.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here are my specs:

ASUS277n (NVidia chipset)
Matrox G450 dual monitor video card
PC2100 512 MB memory
Athlon XP 2000
Video Vegas 3.0c latest build

GL1 camcorder

I am running in standard PC mode, so I am sharing no IRQ's

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 7/26/2002, 10:21 PM
There could be be some specific issues that is an abnormality to your particular hardware configuration. I'm using an Athlon system , VV version 3.0c under Windows XP and have absolutely no problems at all with Vegas Video.

Many print to tape problems seem to be cured by writing/reading to a seperate hard drive.

Did you change the default setting under options/prefrences on the video device tab to OHCI Compliant? If you didn't your camera won't been "seen". To see the video on the external monitor be sure you click the preview on external monitor button that looks like a TV above and to the left of the preview window. Should change to blue.

EArrigotti wrote on 7/27/2002, 1:05 AM
Yes,

I tried all of those things and more. Maybe my software is corrupt. I may try re-installing.
EArrigotti wrote on 7/27/2002, 2:05 AM
I tried re-installing the software (after completely uninstalling) both old and new versions, and I am having the same problem.

I select all the right things to preview on external monitor, the preview window says "preview on external monitor", the timeline is moving, I can hear the audio, but the camcorder just sits there. The interesting thing is that when I go to stop the video in Vegas, the program freezes, and won't un-freeze until I shut off the camcorder.

I'm not sure what's going on here. Maybe my cheap firewire card isn't working with this new MOBO/CPU combo. I can't figure it out. Again, I can take video off of the camera without a problem. It's the going back to the camera where I am having issues.
Cheesehole wrote on 7/27/2002, 12:56 PM
swapping out the firewire card with a different brand would be a good thing to try.
EArrigotti wrote on 7/27/2002, 1:00 PM
I swapped out the firewire card, and the same problem exists. I don't know what's going on. This is quite the head scratcher.

The big problem is that now my system is useless for making video's since I can't send anything back to the camera.
EArrigotti wrote on 7/27/2002, 4:46 PM
Computers are stupid, but people are great. Thanks for being a sounding board.

I resolved my issue. I had to update the BIOS for the Motherboard.

I did this when I first installed the motherboard, but I used their flash update utility to check the latest update. When I looked it up myself, I found there was a newer update, and what do you know, it fixed the problem.

Snow wrote on 8/7/2002, 7:43 AM
Switching from Windows ME to Windows XP Home fixed my problem. I had tried every suggestion except for replacing the motherboard and camcorder.