HDVSplit dropping frames

[Boadicea7]

Hey There,

I've been using HDVSplit for months with Adobe Premier Pro, because PPro doesn't have scene d etect in HD. Now suddenly the HDVSplit is dropping frames, and the files are all messed up. I know it's the HDVSplit, because I can capture the footage (without the scene detect) with Premier pro with no dropped frames. What can I do about it?

Boadicea7

[edDV]

Hey There,

I've been using HDVSplit for months with Adobe Premier Pro, because PPro doesn't have scene d etect in HD. Now suddenly the HDVSplit is dropping frames, and the files are all messed up. I know it's the HDVSplit, because I can capture the footage (without the scene detect) with Premier pro with no dropped frames. What can I do about it?

Boadicea7

First avoid preview. That alone can cause frame drops. Transfer without preview. Monitor on the camcorder.

[Boadicea7]

But I don't use the preview function in HDVSplit.

[edDV]

But I don't use the preview function in HDVSplit.

Use Task Manager (or Resource Monitor in Vista).

When I run it here, there is no affect on CPU or memory. Only the hard drive gets lightly exercised at ~4MB/s.

If your hard drive is near full or highly fragmented, you may get drops.

Best to capture to a drive other than the OS drive. The OS sometimes takes priority and can steal the drive.

[minidv2dvd]

capture without scene detect. use scene detect on the captured file afterward.