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Dropping frames problem
This is the first project i’ve imported since switching over to the new Premiere Pro 2 and on my first capture i dropped 7 frames on a 60 min capture. Over the weekend I filmed my good friends wedding with multiple cameras so I ran more tests. After importing 5 tapes i drop an average of 2-7 frames per hour. I tried capturing on my raid 0 with 2x 400 hitachi drives, then on my 80 gig raptor, and then I even recaptured the same tapes and dropped frames in different spots. In the last 4 years of DV editing on my old computer I don’t think i ever dropped a frame, and now that i’m working on the new Boxx 7400 with the new production studio out of the box its dropping frames. I’m kinda confused, not sure what the problem is. Does anyone have any ideas what it could be?
Thanks,
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After defragging all drives, I would do a test…copy/paste a file about 100 MB from each drive to the other…should take 2-3 seconds.
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Thanks Mike for your quick response.
I just defraged both discs and tried to capture another tape with 5 dropframes in the first 46 min. I ran the 100mb transfer test and the file moved in less then 2 seconds. One thing I forgot to mention is if you look at the timecode in Premiere while capturing, its seems to pause for a second every once in a while and then jump to catch up. Meanwhile the video looks like its playing normal. Just one last note i’m using a Canon XL1s to import the tapes. Any suggestions what it could be?
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You may have a background app/tsr running thats causing the dropouts/interuptions, try running EndItAll 2 or Taskpower 2(newer) and stop everything except what necessary for video work.
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Play the tape in the camera (not connected to PC) to verify all the frames are on the tape.
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I checked the XL1 and the tape plays like it should. The timecode is rock steady and looks exctly the way I filmed it. I installed premiere pro 2 on my laptop as a test, with other apps running (azureus, word, outlook, aim, a download going,and many others), and there were no dropped frames. I only have one hardrive in the laptop and wanted to see what would happen. The one thing I noticed is that the capture duration timecode, and the timecode in the lower right of the capture window was also laggy just like my editing system. Example: It counts up for 8 sec or so hangs for a sec and then jumps to 9:12 and continues counting meanwhile the video looks fine. When this happens no dropped frames are reported, its just something visual going on in the capture window. Is this a normal thing in premiere 2.0?
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I found enditall2 and ran the aplication, it doesn’t look like there is anything running that shouldn’t be. Have any ideas what it could be?
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It could be a item like a printer monitor, network, PC health routine, etc. that polls the computer, some of these have been known to interupt and cycle steal
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Well I tried end it all and killed everything except the essentials. (I don’t even have a printer installed on the computer. I tried importing the tape again and 2 dropped frames in 20 min. This laggy timecode counters kinda bothering me but i’m not sure if it means anything. I have searched online and can’t find any information. When you all capture, does the timecode count continuous and smooth? I am really stumped. I am using the motherboard firewire (texas instrument ohci compliant ieee 1394). If you want me to take any screenshots and post them let me know.
Thanks,
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Disable S.M.A.R.T check on video drives
K.P. Prieur
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Hi K.P.,
How do I disable S.M.A.R.T check? I have been looking all around and haven’t had any luck. Even googled it with no results that sound like what your talking about. I found one lead in a help file that was setting up some other setting and it had a table and had HDD S.M.A.R.T check and bios in the cells. I am going to check in the bios and see if its there.
Thanks,
Tom
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