VV6 and dropped frames - huh???

Cliff Etzel wrote on 7/17/2006, 9:40 AM
Ok, I'm banging my head on this one.

I'm only acquiring MiniDV from my TRV950 - XP is on C drive, Programs on D drive, video is being acquired on my G drive - a Seagate 160GB on a Promise Raid Card. Challenge: Trying to use Vegas capture results in dropped frames all the time... I go into PPro 1.5, no dropped frames using their capture app. I've done everything I can think of to resolve the problem but so far - no go.

About ready to give up since even though PPro is more resource intensive, it is showing rock solid performance - What am I missing here since Vegas supposedly is more efficient in utilizing system resources???

TIA,

Cliff

Comments

busterkeaton wrote on 7/17/2006, 11:06 AM
don't know what is happening in your case. You may want to talk to Sony Support directly.

Also do you know about Scenalyzer which is a excellent third party capture tool.

Can you capture in Premiere and then edit in Vegas? Is there anything that is preventing you from doing that?
riredale wrote on 7/17/2006, 12:14 PM
Download a free trial copy of ScenalyzerLive, and try to capture from that. It's entirely separate from Vegas and/or Premiere, so if you still have dropped-frame problems with ScLive, then you can begin to troubleshoot from there.

A lot of people here actually prefer capturing video with ScLive anyway, just because of all the great extra features this inexpensive utility offers over the VidCap program.

Note: ScLive won't (yet) do HDV capture, but there is a very nice freeware app called HDVSplit that can do the job in that instance.
kentwolf wrote on 7/17/2006, 1:35 PM
>>A lot of people here actually prefer capturing video with ScLive...

Oh yeah. I'm one of them. Been using it for years. Works great, low cost, terrific app.

It's the only app I have seen that allows you to identify video clips by shoot date/time (in the filename), which I personally prefer very much.

You won't go wrong with Scenalyzer. It's what Vegas capture should be, in my opinion.
Cliff Etzel wrote on 8/7/2006, 4:10 PM
Well, I had forgotten about this thread - I finally decided to give it a shot and see what all the hubub is about.
Steve Mann wrote on 8/7/2006, 7:19 PM
Well, you started it, so what was the solution?
Cliff Etzel wrote on 8/15/2006, 10:32 PM
Seems to be the vidcap application causing me grief.. Thanks to all who responded.

Cliff
farss wrote on 8/16/2006, 1:05 AM
The ONLY time I've really had a dropped frame issue is when I should have had one, i.e. drive couldn't keep up, background task stealing too many CPU cycles etc.
However VidCap may report dropped frames when there isn't really any genuine dropped frames, things like a frame or two of extreme dropouts, mostly from dodgy cameras as they go in/out of record.
I've bought a copy of SCLive and used it once, to get audio off a PDX 10 tape.
I'm certainly not defending VidCap, I've got a different gripe about it, but it does get the job done.

Bob.
Chienworks wrote on 8/16/2006, 5:11 AM
I'm with Bob. VidCap seems very solid and functional. It may not be fancy, but if you have problems using it then most likey you have some system problems causing it, not VidCap.
Cliff Etzel wrote on 8/16/2006, 6:50 AM
hmm.. Well, not sure what else to try. I have the Raid 0 drives on a seperate PCI Promise raid card thinking that would solve the bandwidth problems, but no go so far. Thing is, PPro 1.5 captures without a hitch, so not sure what else to say. Soon I'll have my new computer built and will revisit this issue once everything is installed.
blk_diesel wrote on 8/17/2006, 5:29 PM
I had that problem awhile back and figured out it was caused by McAfee's anti spam monitoring (causing CPU usage spikes) in the backgrown. I changed a few settings and the problem went away.
Terry Esslinger wrote on 8/17/2006, 6:57 PM
Are you sure there is nothing running in the background? Might want to download EndItAll which can shut down all the extraneous stuff. Works great.