• Avid Media Composer

  Avid Overruns

  Posted by Brian Thomas on October 22, 2007 at 11:20 pm

  I Have At Home An Avid Xpress Pro w/MOJO v5.2.4 running on a HP8200 Workstation with Windows XP

  Whenever I Capture Video I Get The DIG_VDM_OVERRUN error message and all video already on the system stutters and locks up.

  I Have An Internal 465GB Hard Drive That Has No Virus/Errors On It and I have reseated the drive…I am tempted to reformat the drive but before i do that, i’m asking you all for help

  Thanks so much for your time

  Brian Thomas replied 18 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  Michael Hancock

  October 23, 2007 at 2:17 am

  This drive–is it also your system drive? If it is, that’s probably the problem. You need a seperate drive for your media. Capturing to and playing back media on your system drive will overtax your system. Overrun errors typically mean the drive can’t keep up with the flow of data and it chokes.

  You can get an 80GB drive for cheap–make it your system drive with a fresh OS install and make the 465GB drive your media drive.

  Michael.
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  Brian Thomas

  October 24, 2007 at 7:23 pm

  It Is A Separate Internal Drive…Not My C Drive…I Have also rebooted the Mojo every which way with no luck…I am tempted To buy another firewire cable? still having now luck here

  Thanks again for any help
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  Bill Stephan

  October 24, 2007 at 8:19 pm

  An overrun during capture means the data is coming in faster than the drive can store it. A single drive is fast enough for DV25, HDV or 14:1 compression. What resolution are you trying to capture?

  Bill Stephan
  Senior Editor/DVD Author
  USA Studios
  New York City
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  Brian Thomas

  October 25, 2007 at 4:22 pm

  Bill,

  I have captured video at 1:1 in the past
  The error message happens regardless of resolution, The big thing is this system worked fine…i moved, broke down the box and set it back up and i have these drive problems…My next step is to uninstall the driver for the drive
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  Bill Stephan

  October 25, 2007 at 4:50 pm

  If the system was capturing & playing reliably at 1:1, something else is slowing down your system. You said you moved — I wonder if the PC was banged around, damaging the drive. Also, did you install or uninstall anything on your system?

  Bill Stephan
  Senior Editor/DVD Author
  USA Studios
  New York City
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  Brian Thomas

  October 25, 2007 at 8:18 pm

  I did not install or uninstall anything…googling the error message has led me to believe that it is either a bad firewire cable or a driver problem…i am going to uninstall the driver tonight and pray

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