Claude Jones
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I forgot to post results. It was exactly what you said. All is working well now. Thank you.
Claude Jones
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Thanks, Ed. I had no idea you had a help forum on your site. I’ve been so satisfied with the product, and have needed no help to make it function. I’ll try your suggestion when I get back to the machine. You describe exactly what I was attempting to do.
Claude Jones
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Point taken on SDI vs. HDMI
I’m running the output into a cheap LCD monitor with HDMI input; it’s not great for monitoring, but it beats the heck out of looking at the little window inside editing app on your computer monitor screen, at least for me.
Does the Intensity Pro only capture analog uncompressed, or can it compress? That’s a big issue for me as I do mostly long form stuff…
You’ve completely lost me with your last sentence. Acceleration for what, and going to mjpeg??? I haven’t kept up with the state of the industry for a good while because my Velocity system was so dependable and fast that I didn’t need to.
Claude Jones
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That’s a real shame. Sony Vegas can do it…can’t be that hard. I’m a DPS Velocity editor of over ten years, about to be orphaned, so I’ve been experimenting with the options out there. I like Vegas OK, but, Premiere had gotten so much better press in the past few years that I’ve been giving it a run. When you’re totally used to real real-time editing and live NTSC preview, it’s hard to accept less. I know about the Intensity Pro card, and will probably be getting one soon for other reasons, but, I’ll be interested to see what performance I can get with that card in a new quad-processor system with Premiere. Thanks for the response.
Claude Jones
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Thanks Mike & Ed: Ed nailed the issue. I did so myself earlier today. I had somehow missed that part of the manual that explained that external preview was video-only.
As it turns out, my laptop was also a factor in some way because I hooked up both my transcoders, the DAC and the Pyro, to my desktop, and both work well now. I did try a PCMCIA firewire card in my laptop instead of coming out the internal firewire port, but that still did not cure my video issues. On my desktop, which has a slightly slower processor and slightly less ram than my laptop, things just work – video even continues to play on the computer monitor when I send output the the external preview, something my laptop never was able to do.
I also figured out how to adjust the audio delay so the external video is in sync with audio as well, so, I’ve removed the ‘sort of’ part from my ‘Solved’ statement in the subject line. Thanks to all for your input.
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I swapped out the Pyro A/V Link for a DAC-100 and after some fiddling with the clock timing dip switches and a couple of restarts, I now have clean glitch-free video on the external monitor. BUT, there’s no audio. I can see there’s a waveform, and if I turn up the PC speakers, I can hear the audio (though out of sync with the external monitor display), but the RCA audio outputs on the DAC-100 are silent. Have I got a bad DAC? Is there some setting I’m missing? I’ve been through preferences several times, but nothing jumps off the screen…
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>When not playing the timeline what “nice clean picture” do you see?
I get a still of whatever image the playhead is parked on
>You should have no other firewire devices plugged in and no analog >source plugged into Pyro-box while playing your timeline. This keeps >Pyro from becoming confused.
That’s the way it’s set up – only the two cables plugged in to the Pyro, firewire to computer, composite video to monitor. There are no other Firewire devices plugged in to this laptop.
>Your project settings should be DV NTSC (interlaced).
they are
>Now, I hate to be a doom and gloomer but my first DV Interface was the >Pyro and it never worked correctly for me.
>I had the same issue you are having. Tech support sent me another >unit, it had the same problem. I tried everything.
>Then sent the unit back for a refund and purchased a Datavideo unit. >It worked great out of the the box and has given me good results for >about 4 years.You remind me, I have a Datavideo sitting on the shelf in my office – I’ve sort of been suspecting the Ads/Pyro myself – for the price you pay for them, I could easily see the ‘you get what you pay for’ adage kicking in
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A little more info: this is an HP Pavilion laptop with a P4 3GHz processor, 1.5 GB of ram, and an ATI mobile video card. I’m using the built in firewire port which is what I used to record the original video. I ran a Sony VX 1000 camera into this same firewire port and used Vegas to capture a 16 hour event. That went fairly well, though I did suffer a couple of random lost connections and had to restart capture on those occasions; also, on several captures, I got notifications of dropped frames – this was not consistent, and happenned maybe 3-4 times out of 15 or so captures – each session ran from 1-2 hours. I don’t have another firewire port on this machine, and I’m using the PCMCIA slot to run an external SATA drive which is where the footage lives. I could switch the external drive to USB and stick a firewire card in the PCMCIA slot if you think this could be the issue.