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  • MC 2.8 freezing when I try to capture HD video

    Posted by John Castelli on August 16, 2008 at 10:36 pm

    Hey guys,

    I’m really struggling trying to figure out what is causing my Avid to freeze every time I try to capture HD video. Here’s the situation:

    When I try to capture HD, the computer locks up to the point where I can’t even end the application, or restart my computer. I just had to have a new hard drive put in along with a new mother board, and just confirmed that they are the same as my last ones.

    So I started to trouble shoot and here’s what I got so far:

    It’s not the fire wire port, as the same port was able to read an external hard drive

    Its not the fire wire, as I bought a new one and have had the same problem.

    It’s not the camera port, because when I digitize the same tape, from the same camera port only down convert it to SD and run it through the Mojo, it works.

    I am indeed unplugging the mojo when I am trying to capture HD. And, about a week before I had my parts replaced was able to capture HD no problem. My computer is definitely capable of handling it.

    I can still edit my existing HD footage with no issues at all

    Not once have I gotten an error message when my computer freezes.

    My system specs are:

    Dell precision workstation 470
    Dual 3.00Ghz Xeon processors
    3GB ram
    nvidia quadro fx 1400 video card
    windows XP SP2
    hyperthreading on
    media saved to a gforce 500GB harddrive with almost nothing on it and plenty of space remaining.

    If you guys have anything it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!

    John

    John Castelli replied 17 years, 9 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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