-
Disappearing footage – please help
Hi,
I use Scenalyzer Live ( build July 28 2003) to capture footage that is imported for editing in Vegas (version 5 + DVD). I’ve encountered a serious problem for the 1st time with 2 out of 4 harddrives connected to my Promise Ultra 100 card:
The 2 drives in question are both 250gb 8mb cache Western Digital Caviar SE drives. They both run off the 1st IDE channel on the Promise Ultra 100 controller card. The 2 other drives, connected to the 2nd IDE channel of this controller card, seem to be fine. Please know that switching the IDE channels from channel #1 to #2 for the above drives procures the same results – that is, the same 2 drives that gave me problems are still problematic irregardless of what channel they’re on:
*** The 1st of these 2 problematic drives presently reports that it is NOT FORMATTED. What’s going on here? This drive had about 3 hours of footage that played flawlessly yet is now totally inaccessible.
*** The 2nd of these 2 problematic drives seems to be losing footage; Certain scenes of footage i loaded up onto this 250gb Western Digital Caviar SE drive cannot be accessed. When i open Scenalyzer, after about 10-30 seconds, an SCLive pop-up window comes up that says “OUT OF MEMORY” – actually, 2 – 5, or more, of these “OUT OF MEMORY” pop-ups come up one after the other. The thumbnail pictures for these inaccessible scenes seem to have vanished, though their text information seems to have remained – and certainly they won’t play at all. And, the same inaccessible scenes remain inaccessible, though scenes immediately before or after them are also becoming inaccessible. Therefore, to some extent, inaccessible scenes seem to be increasing in number every time I open Scenalyzer, or any other application that calls upon this footage.
There is one variation on the inaccessible footage on the 2nd problematic drive above – there are a couple of scenes, with intact thumbnail pictures and text info that begin to play well, then all of a sudden reach a certain spot, and the screen turns into multi-colored squares and this abominable noise overloads my speakers?!
Please know that I can not play these inaccessible scenes within
Windows Media Player either; Another pop-up is displayed titled
“Windows Media Player Error” and says “Cannot play back the file. The
format is not supported.”What’s going on? Have I lost this footage? Am I going to lose more?
Some of my system specs are:
Windows XP Pro with Service pack 1
Iwill MPX2 v1.5 mobo
2 x AMD 2000+ cpus
Promise Ultra-100 card
3 x 250gb Western Digital Caviar SE drives
1 x 120gb IBM Deskstar drive
1 x 40gb Maxtor (system drive)
1 x 3gb Seagate (separate paging file drive)
Matrox G550 video card driving two monitors
ADS Pyro firewire card
Audigy soundcard
Lynx One soundcard***the above system has Dave Laborde’s XP tweaks applied (as found via Videoguys.com)
For you information, I have checked (deep scanned) all my drives for errors with the built in Windows XP scan utility and could find none. I’ve also replaced my drive cables with new ones, yet the problems still persist.
Are my drives cooked? I do realise that the built in drive scanner is not the best out there – what should I be using?
Is it something else? What must I do?
Pleas help,
simon -
2 Replies
-
ATA 100 is a older card .. go to promise site to make sure you have the newest driver for the pci card …
i have had ATA 100/133 cards go down … you might switch the cable (chan 1) to the drives that are not showing up to see if they show up on the working channel (chan 2) … -
also might be a bad ATA cable on channel 1 ??
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up