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Capturing DV on a notebook – recommended PCMIA card?
Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone can suggest a decent brand of PCMCIA firewire card for my notebook. I bought a generic one a few weeks ago and it’s pretty crap. Howver, I’m not 100% sure if it was the card’s fault or my own. Basically what I’d like to do is capture footage in Premiere Pro from my DV camera on to my portable firewire drive. The notebook I have now (Dell Inspiron 8600) only has one 4-pin firewire port.
The card I bought drops frames like crazy when I’m using it. Essentially it’s useless. Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong? I have the camera hooked up through the built in 4 pin connector, and the HD is connected to the PCMCIA card. Is this sharing the same BUS? I’m so confused when it comes ot PCMCIA stuff… any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Nick
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7 Replies
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What is the spec of your laptop?
Let us know and we may be able to pinpoint the problem. It’s unlikely to be the firewire card causing the problem.
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Nick,
I have an Adaptec card that I use quite frequently without any issues. As stated above, there is a good chance that there is a problem in the system rather than the card itself. DO you have a lot of background processes running or any other programs that might cause the dropped frames? If not, try capturing with ScLive and see if it drops frames or not.Aanarav Sareen
Adobe Certified Expert, Premiere Pro
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Do you have realtime scanning switched on in your antivirus software?
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Other things to check on the external drive – indexing (right click the drive) and restore (right click my computer) – both killers, both not needed on that drive.
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R. Hewitt – It’s a Dell Inspiron 8600. 1.6ghz Pentium-M, 1gig of RAM. Runs most things I throw at it pretty damn well. I can capture video to the 5400rpm internal drive with no problems at all. It’s only when I use the PCMCIA card that things go wonky.
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I’ll double check both of those. However, I’ve captured dozens of hours of footage to this drive in the past, just not using my notebook (I captured on a desktop PC that had 2 seperate firewire buses). I thought adding a PCMCIA card would essentially mean adding another BUS.
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Those settings are not inherent in the drive – they are inherent in the notebook’s connection to the drive. The desktop may be different either becuase of something you set up, or because of differences in setup by the manufacturer
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