• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Capture Conundrum

  Posted by Rob Wolf on September 1, 2005 at 5:05 pm

  I’ve got the darndest thing going on with my machine and I’m turning to all of your able minds to help…

  I’ve been capturing media just fine on my machine, with no dropped frames or anything. Last night, Premiere Pro would capture for about a minute or two, then do something really strange:
  * The tape would keep playing on my camcorder
  * I get a freezed image on the capture window
  * I can’t stop or control the capture. I can’t even close Premiere without terminating the program
  * I have to restart my system to capture again

  Some salient details about my system
  * I’ve got a 2.4 Ghz machine, a gig of RAM, and an SATA hard drive with plenty of room. Again, it had been capturing just fine until now
  * I’ve turned off all anti-virus and other background monitoring stuff
  * No other programs running
  * I haven’t installed anything new since this started happening

  Anyone seen this before? How can I stop the insanity?

  Regards,
  Rob

  Rob Wolf
  OyBaby LLC
  https://www.oybaby.com

  Sodajim replied 20 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

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  Mike Velte

  September 1, 2005 at 9:31 pm

  Been there done that…bad firewire cable was my problem with your symptoms.
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  Sodajim

  September 2, 2005 at 1:10 am

  Would a bad firewire also cause my capture window to be black eventhough I can capture into PPro…?
  Actually, in some cases, my capture window displays a ghost effect of sorts from what appears to be my favorites in IE… Very strange…
  Any ideas…?

  Thanks,
  Jim
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  Marisu Fronc

  September 2, 2005 at 7:33 pm

  Jim-

  Do you have a dual monitor set-up? I had this problem when the capture window was dragged onto the right (B) monitor – shut down, restart, reposition the window and it was okay to play (not that it doesn’t bail out all the time for other reasons – just not the same way;)

  slaine,
  marisu
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  Sodajim

  September 2, 2005 at 9:41 pm

  Thanks for the reply!

  I do have a dual monitor setup but have tried various things to correct this because what’s irritating is this is a relatively new problem and not much has really changed on this box…

  I will attempt to move the capture window onto the right monitor(B) and restart or vise-versa… It’s actually a real pain in the @#$% to capture various clips without the capture window; I have to view things on the camera screen.

  Thanks again,
  Jim

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