[Mark Thompson]

Hi,
when I put the unit in it flashes Blue/Red. Once the Universal Control comes up it goes to a solid blue – but once about every 30-45 seconds or so it goes red briefly. A mouse over the mixer goes busy at about the same interval.
If I fire up Studio One it goes thru its startup sequence but when it should be activating FireStudio device it puts up a warning and says the device “asked for a reset” 🙁 When I go to the Control Panel Sound App it shows the device there (windows has recognized it) and the green bars move when the microphone is used. When I ask windows to get the latest driver it says I have the latest.

I tried the device on another box and symptoms are much the same. I tried recording to the windows sound recorder and I had some success but when you play the recording my voice goes very deep until it sounds like its a tape that is being slowly forced to a stop 🙂

I think this is the device losing “synch”, but I don’t really know what that means in the OHCI context. I hope to resolve this by throwing in a pcmcia card with FW connections. That is one suggestion I found on the PreSonus forum.

My main worry is Vegas but if it works for you then I will persevere. I have sort of seen this before in a slightly different context; if I leave Vegas configured for my tascam/usb after it has been removed then Vegas goes into the same comatose state, where there are no faults reported but nothing works. Setting the audio device to something connect immediately resolves this.
mark

[Mark Thompson]

Hi,
no surfing? 🙁

I had a go at editing some of the clips and to my surprise the results when rendered are much better than I was expecting. I’m still not sure whether I’ve dropped some frames but maybe preview on Vegas is partly to blame for a perceived acquisition problem.

I’ve also started thinking about recording to disk. AJA Ki Pro is sort of what I want but it’s pricey and I think it’s better suited to Apple rather than Win/Vegas. Sony have a hard disk that mounts on a better camera than mine. But I’m excited about the Firestore FS-200 DTE. I’ve a bit more research to do though

[Mark Thompson]

Hi,
thanks for the suggestions but they are both variations of clearing the path for the capture program to run. With todays bloatware, anti-virus, index scan’s etc it is harder to achieve than it should be.
How do tge pro’s go from tape to disk?

[Mark Thompson]

Hi,
thanks very much for the replies. Things look much beter now.

One thing I added though was to make pixel ratio 1.0 down from 1.4. I still haven’t figured out how that helps but it does.

mark