• VEGAS Pro

  Problems, solutions, problems….(long)

  Posted by Terry Esslinger on February 6, 2006 at 7:05 pm

  Picked up a dual 6 pin firewire card for my 3.2 P4 1G laptop. Also purchased a 300G firewire/USB external 7200 HD. Laptop had a 4pin firewire builtin. Connected camera to 4 pin built in connection and connected HD to new card. Everything was recognized and HD was formatted correctly (notFAT32). During capture from camera had 16 dropped frames in about 5 minutes. Had all other programs (processes) closed and preview turned off. Same capture to internal drive was flawless (no dropped frames). So… removed firewire card. Connected HD to builtin FW port and daisy chained the camera off the HD. (Essentially removed the card from the set up). Captured flawlessly (mo dropped frames). So… card was the problem – probably.

  Captured media was about 40 5-10 second scenes. Placed all scenes on timeline as cuts with only one dissolve transition from black to scenes at beginning. Attempted to render as DVDA Mainconcept MPEG2 video stream and render would stop at some point and error would occur -windows write ahead caching had failed – when searching for error found that the external HD had disappeared from the system. Turned the HD off and back on, system recognized it and we started render again. Same thing but at different spot. Do not think it is ovherheating problem as I am using a cooling system under the laptop. Neither laptop or HD felt hot and no strange noises. Basically HD keeps disappearing from system at varying points in time. If I just let the system sit (not rendering) it can sit for hours (indefinately?) without ‘losing’ the HD. Any ideas???

  Sorry for the long post!

  Stephen Mann replied 20 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Edward Troxel

  February 6, 2006 at 7:11 pm

  You plugged the firewire drive into the card the second time as well? It could be the card has an interrupt conflict with some other device in the laptop.

  I would try one of the following:
  1) Daisy chain – built-in firewire to hard drive and firewire from hard drive to camera (this has worked fine for me with a deck hooked up through the hard drive)
  2) Use the hard drive connected via USB

  Edward Troxel
  
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  Stephen Mann

  February 9, 2006 at 8:18 am

  Go to the control panel, System, Device Manager. Double click on the drive to bring up the drive properties, click on the “policies” tab and make sure that “write caching” is off.

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