[Shannon Bentley]

Thanks so much Terrence. That gives me a good place to start…track down that corrupt culprit and nix it. I’ll let you know how things turn out!

[Shannon Bentley]

Just one more question…how do you know if your computer is a “PCI Express-enabled system” to accept a PCIe card?

[Shannon Bentley]

When capturing 2:1 OMF from a Sony PVW-2800 Betacam deck through a standard Mojo, the image in the source window freezes. When you play the clip, the image is frozen, but when you scroll along the image appears to be captured and all there – it just won’t play. But these are the least of the problems because then the whole computer (even the mouse) will freeze right up and the only way out is a hard re-boot. Yikes – scary! I tried plugging my Mojo into a different firewire port and it was WORSE – the computer froze up when the Media Composer was loading!!! I have re-installed MC to no avail. I have also been using the system for a DV project and haven’t had a lick of problems. Obviously something in my PC is not fit to handle the Mojo & SD. My set up is as follows:

Dell Workstation PWS 370
OS – XP Pro SP2
Intel Pentium 4
3GHz
1.5GB RAM
300 GB NTFS
SATA RAID Controller – Intel 82801FR
OHCI Compliant IEEE1394 Bus Host Controller
a 2 port firewire card, and a 1 port card with audio I/O
(I’m trying to run Media Composer 2.5.3 with a standard Mojo and a Sony PVW-2800 Betacam deck)

Any ideas? What can I do to make this work? Please don’t tell me I should just toss this PC in the ol’ dumpster and start fresh – they don’t pay me enough at work for that!!! 🙂
Thanks for any advice Roy!

[Shannon Bentley]

Thanks Roy! I have been having problems with my system freezing up with my new Mojo – I think this could be the cause. Is there any way to know for sure before I go buy a new firewire card?

[Shannon Bentley]

I’ve been thinking the same thing! I have never re-installed and I’m really reluctant to do it…I’m afraid it will be a lot of work (backing up project files & such) for nothing. I was kinda hoping someone on the forum could help.

I might just have to do it though – I’m also having problems with the waveform/vectorscope in colour correction (it just doesn’t work at all).

If I do – I’ll let you know how it goes. 🙂

[Shannon Bentley]

I am having a similar problem…but I’m using Media Composer with the same NVIDIA card. I wonder if it has something to do with the NVIDIA driver? Ever since I upgraded mine, my system freezes up. It doesn’t really “crash” (ie. I don’t get the blue screen of death or any error messages) – it just totally freezes up and even the mouse won’t work so the only option is a hard system shut down / unplug. But it seems to happen mostly when I come out of the digitize tool as well. I’ve also noticed that the video (of the tape being digitized)in my record monitor pauses and studders while I’m digitizing…like it can’t keep up. What driver do you have installed for the NVIDIA card?

[Shannon Bentley]

Thanks grin.