[Tom Sven]

In premiere you have the Device Control in the lower right and if you hit options and select your camera. I am trying to find out because i have tested on the DM-XL1s and Generic and both yeild the same results. (“laggy timecode in premiere ” and 2-7 dropped frames across one hour of tape.) Would Device control settings have any effect on the timecode issue?

[Tom Sven]

Yes the capture drives were the same. I made sure settings matched.

[Tom Sven]

Ok decided to try capturing with another program to isolate the problem. I used Virtualdub and there were no dropped frames. So it may be safe to say that the problem is in premiere. In premiere one of the things I notice is that the camera timecode and capture duration both in the capture window have a “counting pause” when capturing. I captured the duration as an example you can take a look here to see. https://www.somamediaarts.com/Temp/CaptureTimecodeGlitch.avi
Is this normal? Anyone have any ideas why i’m dropping frames when capturing in premiere?

[Tom Sven]

I just wanted to add one more detail. My capture drive is the same drives I was using in my old computer. I just reraided them and formated them.
–Tom

[Tom Sven]

Hi K.P.,
How do I disable S.M.A.R.T check? I have been looking all around and haven’t had any luck. Even googled it with no results that sound like what your talking about. I found one lead in a help file that was setting up some other setting and it had a table and had HDD S.M.A.R.T check and bios in the cells. I am going to check in the bios and see if its there.
Thanks,
Tom

[Tom Sven]

Well I tried end it all and killed everything except the essentials. (I don’t even have a printer installed on the computer. I tried importing the tape again and 2 dropped frames in 20 min. This laggy timecode counters kinda bothering me but i’m not sure if it means anything. I have searched online and can’t find any information. When you all capture, does the timecode count continuous and smooth? I am really stumped. I am using the motherboard firewire (texas instrument ohci compliant ieee 1394). If you want me to take any screenshots and post them let me know.
Thanks,
Tom

[Tom Sven]

I found enditall2 and ran the aplication, it doesn’t look like there is anything running that shouldn’t be. Have any ideas what it could be?

[Tom Sven]

I checked the XL1 and the tape plays like it should. The timecode is rock steady and looks exctly the way I filmed it. I installed premiere pro 2 on my laptop as a test, with other apps running (azureus, word, outlook, aim, a download going,and many others), and there were no dropped frames. I only have one hardrive in the laptop and wanted to see what would happen. The one thing I noticed is that the capture duration timecode, and the timecode in the lower right of the capture window was also laggy just like my editing system. Example: It counts up for 8 sec or so hangs for a sec and then jumps to 9:12 and continues counting meanwhile the video looks fine. When this happens no dropped frames are reported, its just something visual going on in the capture window. Is this a normal thing in premiere 2.0?

[Tom Sven]

Thanks Mike for your quick response.

I just defraged both discs and tried to capture another tape with 5 dropframes in the first 46 min. I ran the 100mb transfer test and the file moved in less then 2 seconds. One thing I forgot to mention is if you look at the timecode in Premiere while capturing, its seems to pause for a second every once in a while and then jump to catch up. Meanwhile the video looks like its playing normal. Just one last note i’m using a Canon XL1s to import the tapes. Any suggestions what it could be?

[Tom Sven]

Ok great thanks.
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