Video Capture Problems

[George12]

A follow up to my issue. I noticed when I click on the play button in the Sony Video Capture box the tape starts rolling normally. When I press Capture Video Icon th start captiring the video then the video screen freezes

[Rick Mac]

Are you out of hard drive space on your capture drive?

Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377

[George12]

No way I have 400mb of free hard drive space. In addition if the firewire cable was bad would I still be able to view footage in preview window. It runs fine until I click on Capture Video icon and then preview window freezes. It seems strange that I was able to capture 8 tapes then all of the sudden can’t capture anymore. Could use some more suggestions of what the problem might be. Thanks George

[Mike Kujbida]

No way I have 400mb of free hard drive space.

That’s it?
DV is approx. 13.5 GB/hr.
Your 400 mb is under 2 minutes of video.
You need a bigger hard drive for all your video. Externals are very cheap these days and a 500 GB. model is what I’d recommend.
Use it strictly for video storage.

[George12]

Sorry I meant 400 Gig of space. An added note. I decided to capture file on another hard drive, call it Drive B, and I was able to capture. Thus Nothing wrong with camcorder or cable or software. For some reason the other hard drive, call it drive A, is not able to write capture video. When I capture the new material on other hard drive, drive B, I copies all AVI to other hard drive, drive A, and I was able to copy files. I think my problem might be with buffer underrun. Could it be tha hard drive I am having a problem can’t keep up with writing footage or maybe not enough buffer to keep up with hard drive. Any thoughts? Thank You George

[Edward Troxel]

Is your hard drive up to speed? Is it running in DMA mode? Or has it dropped to PIO for some reason.

I have the same issue on this laptop. It has two hard drives built-in – I can’t capture to drive “C” but I can capture to drive “D”.

Edward Troxel

[George12]

Thanks for reply. How can I tell if I drive is running in DMA mode. If it is’t how do I switch to it. If I had to switch to it will my data in hard drive be in jeopardy? Thanks George

[Edward Troxel]

Data will not be in jeopardy. It’s in the Windows setup for the drive.

Right-click “My Computer”, go to Properties, Go to the Hardware tab and click on “Devices”.

You would then go to the “IDE” controllers entry, go to the Primary IDE controller (assuming that’s where the hard drive is connected), right-click that and choose Properties.

Now go to the “Advanced” tab and there you will find the various settings. The “Transfer Mode” should read “DMA If Available”.

Edward Troxel

[George12]

Thanks for reply. I did just that and it states
Secondary IDE Channel ( this is an external USB drive 2.0)

Device 0
Devise Type Auto Detection ( Grayed out)
Transfer Mode DMA if available
Current Transfer Mode PIO Mode

Can’t figure out how to change to DMA mode.

[Edward Troxel]

Well… at least you now know WHY.

What if you connect it via firewire instead?

Edward Troxel