Why does Primiere Pro 2 STOP whenever I change the window focus?

[Jon Barrie]

I’m sorry to tell you that you can’t work that way in PPro, FCP or Avid. Sony Vegas might have their own way of working around that. It’s not a problem, that’s how professional NLEs work. I admire your desire to be efficient. The Capturing mechanism is there to prevent users from potentially bottlenecking the ram and the system. Take the opportunity to stretch your legs while capturing.
Send a request to Adobe about it. Doubt whether it will happen. Now that we are moving into HD and that requires large amounts of HDD writing space.

[Mordy Gilden]

Actually, I just found out the last two versions of Premiere starting supporting background capture due to popular demand… however, this is only true when ACTUALLY RECORDING- rewinding and ff stop as soon as the focus changes. I didn’t realize because when I’m actually recording, I’m usually watching as well, however when rewinding to tape to put away, or ff to a certain time location, I click away for a moment very often because it takes a couple of minutes, and I noticed that it would always stop when I did that (so I assumed the same would happen when capturing as well). So, thankfully they’ve “fixed” that part for people who capture a whole tape at a time. But for me, the biggest greif comes from rewinding. Why does it stop rewinding when the focus is moved?
This completely goes against the theory posted above, as rew and ff are completely camera-hardware based and take miminal amounts of RAM and CPU power from the workstation, if any at all, whereas capturing works just fine in the background!!

Anyway, it still doesn’t address the phenomenon when actually editing the timeline and the focus is changed… Sometimes I’m listening to a recorded interview play, while flipping through my clips of B-roll. But as soon as I click anywhere else, even if I switch to my email for a moment, it stops playing! This doesn’t make any sense. I also don’t believe that Sony’s Vegas is so “revolutionary” in being the only one that supports this… it seems like common sense to be able to edit like that, and I’d think a program with as much prestige as Premiere would allow such behavior. I was sorta hoping there was an option somewhere like “continue in background” or something.