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Phil Thomas
August 21, 2010 at 12:00 pm in reply to: HDV Capture gives random red frames and out of sync audio

Yeh but these artifacts and the red frames only appear on the computer file and not on the LCD screen of the camera so the camera is reading and displaying it from the tape properly but simultanously the file being captured into the computer having these problems. Also in HDV it reads the some of the frames then seems to store them somewhere then put them to the file out of sync once the red has gone?

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Phil
Phil Thomas
August 21, 2010 at 1:19 am in reply to: HDV Capture gives random red frames and out of sync audio

I’ve run a cleaning tape and the problem isn’t recorded on the tape and doesn’t show on the LCD of the camera while you are capturing it. The captures can be between a couple of minutes long to the full hour and it seems to happen randomly. I also get problems in capturing SD footage only this time it messes up only blocks within a frame or two rather than making the whole thing red. I’ve captured with two different cameras, both the same model and get the same problem.

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Phil
Phil Thomas
August 20, 2010 at 5:11 pm in reply to: HDV Capture gives random red frames and out of sync audio

Hi, My system is a Intel Quad Core 2.5GHz, 8mb RAM, Stand Alone Desktop, no Internet, therefore no AntiVirus or Firewall running all the time. I capture to 2x 7200Rpm internal Sata HDDs running in a RAID which copies the information to both, there is a seperate HDD for OS. The Raid system is run by the Intel software that came installed with my PC, could this be causing it? Although it did this before I installed those HDDs. There are no sleep timers or Power Saving modes active and I always let it capture without doing anything else on the system. Any other ideas why it might be dropping frames, it does it usually once sometimes twice on nearly every catpure? And also why does it come back out of sync like its being storing the frames then putting them down to the file later?

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Phil
Phil Thomas
February 17, 2010 at 7:32 pm in reply to: PP CS4 Dropping Frames Randomly on Capture

I’m seeing artifacts while previewing the footage within the capture window while just playing the tape. But I can simultaneously look at the cams LCD and there are no artifacts. Sometimes its just a few green squares on one frame every now and again. Sometimes the whole footage wont play and its just artifacts.
Phil Thomas
February 17, 2010 at 4:27 pm in reply to: PP CS4 Dropping Frames Randomly on Capture

Cool, I’ll get a new dedicated HDD then see if that helps. Although it does it when playing through the tape aswell as capturing, so is it still using the HDD then?
Phil Thomas
February 17, 2010 at 2:05 am in reply to: PP CS4 Dropping Frames Randomly on Capture

Theres one 750GB HDD in the computer thats partitioned into two 375GB sections that show up as two seperate drives. All the programs are installed on one part and I’m capturing to the other part. The part I’m capturing to has about 200GB free space, most of the space is used by single large video files that have been on there all the time, so I shouldnt be filling in fragmented space. They are NTFS Files system running from Windows 7 64 Bit. Not sure on the RPM, how would I find that out?

This afternoon I captured about an two and half hours continuously (changed a tape in the middle) without any problems, but I had to restart my machine before starting the first tape because it wouldnt even play it properly when I first tried. So random!!
Phil Thomas
February 16, 2010 at 7:00 pm in reply to: PP CS4 Dropping Frames Randomly on Capture

Yeh Premiere does say its dropping frames when its doing it while capturing. The Camera and cable works fine when Capturing to my old CS3 on another computer. The Firewire socket is built into the motherboard, I was thinking maybe buying a PCI firewire board might fix it?

Phil