James_j
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New one on me too. I just finished recap on tape 1 with no scene detection and the properties for 1&2 say 48khz audio! 3&4 are correct at 32khz, but still why the length discrepancy? Video 1/2 are 58:05, 3&4 is 1:27:07!
Some sort of odd camera problem? Anyway, I see a force audio sample switch in SCLive; I’m going to try capping again forcing all audio to 32khz. Or 48? Confusing.
Darn shame I can’t use Vegas to cap. How can they hope to achieve greatness with HD when they still don’t fully support miniDV? If 4 channel miniDV audio is so hard for them, I wonder if they realize how many channels are included in the HD spec?
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The sound card shouldn’t be used for cd ripping at all; it’s a digital copying process.
Try CDex (https://www.download.com/CDex/3000-2140-10226370.html) to a .wav, and try playing that .wav on another machine.
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>pf usage never budged above 600mb.
That’s way too much. You’re probably more interested in Peak Memory Usage, but with your RAM Preview set at 16mb you shouldn’t go over 30mb or so. You may have a serious memory leak problem in the OS. -
We found it to be useless. Well, _worse_ than useless since it forced us to use Premiere. You should have been around a few months back when we sold it for half the cost (and were glad to unload it).
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[quote]How would you turn off Write caching on a drive? [/quote]
Device Manager>Disks>properties>policy. But I think removable drives in WinXP have it turned off by default. This wouldn’t solve the problem anyway as the drive could still disconnect in the middle of a write.If you suspect drive failure (different than sudden external drive disconnects), run a SMART check. I use SMART Disk Monitor from Santools, but it won’t test the disk over 1394.
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My money’s on the computer too, especially if they all work on your old computer. And you mentioned reboot – but can we assume un/re-plugging the cable also bring them back online? Running a Device Manager scan?
This isn’t just a minor annoyance that can be waved off with a reboot; if they drop offline at the right moment the whole drive will come unformatted, making any data on it effectively lost (without a lot of recovery hassle).
One option – as opposed to the hassle of returning the computer – may be to install a 1394/usb2 card. Cheap enough to try.
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Don’t take this answer as gospel, but I doubt it. Codecs especially, once installed, update all the necessary files.
I suppose you could always install a virtual machine and be very careful to only upgrade as far as v9. Be real tricky though.
A whole other question is: What’s the big difference supposed to be between 9.0 and 9.1? I just tried a test render and all I can get it identified as is WMV9. Why even try to use an older, presumably inferior, codec especially these days when everyone’s got their machines updating automatically?
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I wish I could point you to a one-size-fits-all answer, but I don’t think there is one. Probably best to experiment with producing regular 4:3 videos and just let the widescreen TVs take care of themselves – they should automatically properly display the material. Once you get that down you can fool around with 16:9.
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I’m getting this with my latest project. A 7 minute photo montage, and the darned audio cuts off way short of the end, but only on the burned DVD.
Discussion over on the Sony forums only seem to indicate I should give DVDA an .avi file to work with. But who wants to compress 5X to .avi then compress to .mpg? Seems better to just render to .mpg from the Vegas timeline.
Well, I just tried it without setting an ‘in’ point (I cut off our logo at the beginning and re-rendered the mpeg2 in Vegas) and it’s okay now.
This is a SERIOUS bug in DVD3 if it can’t properly set in and out points on both video and audio.
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Like you said, and I confirmed, it just doesn’t seem to work as well. I can’t be more specific because I haven’t tried it in ages. Maybe I was getting the same thing you are. I dunno, but since it’s not really necessary, I just don’t do it.