[Anotheruser]

Ok I will check these things out and post again in a few

ty

[Anotheruser]

OK I checked it out and I’m in compliance with everything they show there…. now I’m wondering if i’ve got some chipset issue or other BS thing I’m going to have to deal with… sigh… this is such a MAJOR pain.. this is why i have put off capturing for so long..

What are my other options? Are there any other proven, effective, reliable means of capturing in existence??

[Anotheruser]

Where do I check to see if it IS enabled?

Thanks

[Anotheruser]

I just mean I have a camcorder hooked up to DVMC-DA2 device which is feeding an Adaptec Firewire card. it’s a Duo Connect.

Yes, DMA is enabled on all my drives by default.

[Anotheruser]

OK so in summary, is it a correct statement to say I can capture e.g. one hour as DV-AVI.. then chop it up with splits and remove e.g. 30 minutes of video via trimming, then do a RENDER AS “AVI” and all of the unwanted stuff will be trimmed and the entire file will be saved with the trimmed media events and no signal loss will occur?

Also, is there any way to do destructive editing so when I trim an event it gets trimmed FOR GOOD? Just curious

Thanks all

[Anotheruser]

First question, do you hear this hum when playing other audio files? need to isolate the source as it could be a feedback loop or some weirdness going on with your soundcard, etc.

Second, if the hum is part of the source audio file, in otherwords a noisy recording.. a ground loop.. or just the noise floor itself.. when you bring up levels, it will be accentuated.

There is a chance that DC OFFSET will eliminate it. I know Sound Forge has this feature. Sometimes eliminating the DC OFFSET completely removes the hum. There are a lot of other options, but most require plugins, etc. They are..

-Noise Reduction. Sonic Foundry (err Sony) makes a great Noise Reduction plugin. Costs a lot though.

-EQ. If you can isolate the frequency of the hum (Sound Forge Spectrum analysis is great at this), you can EQ it out – but will lose some adjacent frequencies.

-Noise Gate. you can use the Express Dynamics plugin to set the noise gate so it drops the volume of the sound completely between sounds so the overall presence of the hum is reduced.

all in all, the best solution is either DC OFFSET or Noise Reduction. and you will need Sound Forge for either one… akaik

[Anotheruser]

Nvm, I figured it out. For all the dummies like me out there… just go into tools/preferences and disable all the DV stuff (if you’re capturing analog as I am)

ty

[Anotheruser]

The best defrag app for PC is Diskkeeper.