Problems with play back

[Doug Graham]

You shouldn’t have playback problems on a system of that power, even when using a single drive instead of a RAID.

If your drive uses an IDE interface:

Check to see that your drive’s data bus is working in its optimum mode. Go to Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager/ and select the data bus your video drive is on…might be either Primary or Secondary IDE channel.

Right click the bus and select “Properties/Advanced Settings”. The “Current Transfer Mode” should be DMA 5, or any other DMA mode..l.but not PIO. The other settings should be “Auto” and “Use DMA if Available”.

If you’re using an external drive with a USB or Firewire interface…don’t. Take the drive out of its enclosure and mount it in your case as an internal drive.

Turn off Windows’ Indexing service for the video data drive, and make sure that the drive isn’t set to Compressed mode.

If the drive is already internal, and uses a SATA or SCSI interface…I don’t know what to tell you.

Regards,
Doug Graham

[Gary Kleiner]

I have 2 500 GB drives that are external USB and they work great, even when loaded up.

Your drive in internal?
Could be a problem with your particular drive, or a throughput bottleneck somewhere.

Gary Kleiner

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http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com

[Rick Mac]

Your drive should be able to keep up just fine.
Are you running any programs in the background such as antivirus.
If so, close them. Turn indexing off on that drive.

Is this an internal or external drive?
How is it hooked up? USB, Firewire, internal controller?

[Richard Allen]

I’m sorry if I wasn’t clear, the hard drive is connected SATA II and it is internal. I’ve turned off the antivirus, uninstalled some things and even stop some programs running in the background.

It was working fine for about 6-9 months, then one day sloppy playback.

[Doug Graham]

[Richard Allen] “It was working fine for about 6-9 months, then one day sloppy playback.”

Then something, either hardware or software, has changed. If you can, try using Windows Restore to go back to a point where you were sure things were working OK.

If that doesn’t work, the next thing I’d do would be to remove the drive and see if it will work OK on another system. If the problem goes with the drive, replace it.

If the problem is not the drive, then carefully check all internal connections. Make sure all cooling fans are working. Clean out dust from inside the case.

If you have a spare power supply, swap it in. If that doesn’t fix the problem, then reinstall Windows and all your application software. (I left this one for last because it’s the most bother.)

Regards,
Doug Graham

[Rick Mac]

1) SATA cables can be problematic at times.
First try reseating the connection to the drive and at the
motherboard.

2) Are you sure that the capture was good without dropped frames.
playback will be jerky if you dropped frames at capture.

3) I’m sure you have run a scandisk on the drive. Be sure to run a
surface scan when doing the scandisk. If it finds a lot errors your drive surface is coming apart.

4) Just for grins, transfer some of a clip that will not playback
smoothly to your system drive. If it plays back good then you know the drive is the problem. If it has problems playing on your system drive then the capture was bad. If capture was bad we can look at some of your vegas settings.

5) You might try uninstalling the drive and the drivers for it’s controller in the system devices area. Then reboot and let plug and play reinstall the drivers. I have seen this happen, a device driver for some reason becomes corrupted.

Post again to let us know what you have found out so far.

Regards, Rick.

[Patrick Forestell]

I shoot in DVCpro25 on a used spx800.

Playback from the P2 cards in the cam is perfect on the cam lcd.

However, after I copy the p2 files over to a dell xps and import the files into Vegas 7e, I get dropped frames on the Vegas timeline.

Project set at 23.97fps.

After rendering to MPEG2 for DVD burn via DVD Arch, tghe dropped frames are still there (of course).

I am using DV RAck HD to record DV25 onto an external USB 2.0 7200 160gb drive.

Any ideas ?

Thanks,

Patrick