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Monday
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Feb 23, 2006, 1:49 AM

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I'm having trouble during capture from my PD170 to Premiere. I'm capturing via firewire through a Matrox card. I'm watching it in Premiere while it's capturing it's freezing for a moment...then continuing on..., but Premiere isn't giving the dropped frames error, but bits of audio and video are clearly missing.

I recently had my power supply upgraded....this doesn't seem like it would be an issue, but that was the last computer problem I had.

I am capturing to a different drive from the OS. The capture drive has 85 GB free...so it shouldn't be a space issue. I don't have other programs running in the background (i.e. virus software, microsoft indexing, adware, etc) I've verified that the transfer mode is DMA. I've updated drives and downloaded the 1394 patch....not sure what else to do.... I checked the tape in the camera and it plays back fine in there, so it's not the footage. I've edited about 25 wedding videos and this is the first time I've come across this. Any suggestions?? Your advice is appreciated....

J

I have a custom build, detailes here:
Matrox RTX.100 Xtreme Turnkey Non-Linear System - Intel @ CPU 3.2GHz
Memory 1024MB PC3200 DDR
System Drive 200GB WD 7200RPM
CD/DVD Device 1 Pioneer 8X DVD �R/RW
CD/DVD Device 2 52X/24X/52X CDRW
Matrox Version Matrox RTX100 Collection
Video Drive 1 200GB WD 7200RPM
Video Drive 2 200GB WD 7200 RPM
Plus an additional 200GB USB external hard drive
Running Windows XP



videobear
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Feb 23, 2006, 11:08 AM

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Re: [Monday] Capture Problem [In reply to] Can't Post

Make sure your time code settings for capture match the settings on the tape. Some NLEs can get confused if they are expecting non drop frame time code, and the tape is recorded with drop frame time code.




Regards,
Doug Graham
Panda Productions