“Unknown Recorder Error” during capture – Have tried everything

[Blast1]

Capture What? Via What? Also a more vivid description of your system & software might help oodles.

[Coolondigi]

Capture mini-dv footage from a Sony TRV-17 via firewire to a secondary internal drive.

Systems: dual core amd 4400, 2 gig RAM, dual hard drive – 120&300 gig (non-raid),audigy zs audio.

I’m doing something quite basic – capturing miniDV footage from camera to pc via firewire card, with Premiere Pro 1.5. All captures via Premiere only last a few minutes and then induce the error described above. DVIO captures just fine, but not Adobe. Tech support said usually, if it works via DVIO, then it should work through Premiere.

What else can I tell you?

Thanks.

[Coolondigi]

Capture mini-dv footage from a Sony TRV-17 via firewire to a secondary internal drive.

Systems: Asus A8N-E mb, dual core amd 4400, 2 gig RAM, dual hard drives – 120 gig sata seagate & 300 gig sata II Maxtor (non-raid),audigy2 zs audio, Lite On 16X Dual Layer DVD+RW/-RW, CD / DVD Rom Lite On DVD/CDRW Combo

I’m tyring capturing miniDV footage from camera to pc via firewire card, with Premiere Pro 1.5. All captures via Premiere only last a few minutes and then induce the error described above. DVIO capture utility captures just fine, but not Adobe. Tech support said usually, if it works via DVIO, then it should work through Premiere.

What else can I tell you?

Thanks.

[David J]

It would be instructive to try capturing using Scenalyzer Live from http://www.scenalyzer.com. Free try before buy puts watermark on clips, but otherwise is fully functional. Get the v4 beta.

That way we can hopefully find out whether this is a Premiere issue or something to do with your computer.

[Coolondigi]

I downloaded the beta of scenalyzer and had no problems capturing with that app either (did have one dropped frame).

So, what’s the matter with Premiere Pro? Maybe nothing, but I can’t seem to capture with it. Adobe tech support said they would follow-up with their engineers to see if I there’s anything else I should try.

Thanks.

[Bryanowmp]

Hello all,

I also have this same issue with PP1.5. I am currently running:

AMD Dual Core 4400
BFG 7800 GTX OC
2 GHZ Ram
500 GB Raid
SATA 72 MB Raptor (OS)
250 MB IDE
Various External drives

I have tried capturing to eveyr drive that I own and I continually get the error message: “Unknown Recorder Error” If and when anyone catches wind of this error and a fix, please post.

I see that we both have the same systems basically, I wonder if the problem stems from the Dual Core or something…

BryanOWMP

[Siimon Waddington]

Hi,

I was seeing exactly the same error, on Adobe Pro 1.5, capturing from a Panasonic over firewire. There were even errors using Windows Movie Maker!

Eventually, I realised that my overclocking of the Front Side Bus was to blame. When I returned it to 200 MHz all was fine.

Interestingly, I managed to avoid the error AND overclock the Front Side Bus by overclocking the PCI express bus at half the FSB rate, rather than leaving it untouched at 100 MHz. It appears that this action is not advised, but torture tests of the system do not reveal instability.

Hope this can help,

Simon Waddington