audio droppouts upon capture

[Peter Wright]

First suspect would be the hard drive being used for capture – does it need fragmenting?

[Carlo Villongco]

Hi Peter,

it wasn’t the hardrive…
since I would see the dropouts on the preview without even actually capturing to the hardrive

thanks
Carlo

[Peter Wright]

In that case Carlo, you could try checking the firewire cable and/or connections at either end. If you can see dropouts on preview it sounds like something between the cam & PC.

[Peter Wright]

… just in case it makes a difference, try capturing without preview on screen – “smart preview” will do this. If resources are stretched for whatever reason, removing preview may release enough to get a good capture. (Use cam for preview.)

[Carlo Villongco]

I have tried 4 different PCs and 3 different cables
very strange…

the footage was shot on LP ( err )
though I’ve seen this happen on SP footage but not as severe

I’ll do more tests untill I get to the bottom of this

thanks
Carlo

[Carlo Villongco]

tried this one too… still with same problem

[Peter Wright]

Mmmm – hard to track these down sometimes. May be related to LP footage …

Since you say it looks ok connected to the other camera, have you tried capturing it via that camera ? (disable device control first). You could try firewire to the other camera, or analog to other cam if the first way doesn’t work.

Good luck …

[Carlo Villongco]

This is exactly what we are doing now 🙂
and things are going well..

[Edward Troxel]

If you’re capturing from a different camera that recorded the tape, it *could* be head alignment issues.

Edward Troxel

[Stephen Mann]

Dropped frames are almost ALWAYS a result of the computer unable to keep up with the data flow from the camera. Something in your data path is slow. Could be a fragged disc, could be new software or adware, could be your IO mode on the disc.

LP or SP has absolutely nothing to do with it because the data is exactly the same.

Zero dropped frames is the only acceptable number.

Steve Mann