JVC GR-D239E and Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 Capture problems

[Homertrix]

Hi.

I own a JVC GR-D239E camera and have aquired the Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 application in a special software bundle. also bought a Conceptronic firewire card as didn't have any ports on mypc. it's my first time with a miniDV camera so i didn't kow exactly how to use it. between recording and recording, i kept winding forward to leave a blank space. when i came to capture once the tape was full, i went to adobe premiere and under device it recognised it was a JVC but out of all the model options, it chose standard. my model isn't on the list. so started the capture and after about 2 or 3 minutes it stopped and said something like frames where dropped during capture even though i have the Stop capture on dropped frames option de-activated. so after various attempts, i managed to get the capture done with Windows Movie Maker (not my prefered choice..) so then i thought: maybe it's cos of the blanck spaces.. maybe i've ruined the timeline or something like tht.. so i done another recording, over the previous footage and only paused the camera on a couple of occasions but never turning it off. the next day when i went to capture, same problem again, updated premiere to version 1.5.1 and still the same. tried using the other model types (alternative 1 to 4 and 3 other cam corder models under the jvc tab), tried a generic device and even downloaded the canopus thing and nothing, adobe went from saying about the dropped frames to saying: blanck tape was detected... don't know what coulb be wrong.. i've now taped over everything on that tape from start to finish with the lens cap on and have bought 2 new tapes today and started a new recording this afternoon without leaving spaces, just normal record, pause, stop... hope the same doesn't happen this time as i don't like using movie maker to capture my video but have no choice as premiere refuses to. what could be causing premiere to do this?? will it only be on that tape or will all tapes do the same thing???

Thank you

[t-h-e-w-h-o]

what it sounds like to me is while your "out in the field" recording whatever it is you are recording, you are going to the cam's VCR and watching what you have recorded. Then, that creates what you are refering to as a "blank space" (correct me if im wrong) But, adobe premier will automatically stop a capture after a "blank space" is detected. Its the normal and PREFERED thing for the software to do. Im not sure if theres an option to deactivate that, but for the most part i dont see why there would be, because thats the way its supposed to operate. In the future just dont leave any blank spaces, and to avoid blank spaces try to not use your cam's vcr from shoot to shoot. Hope this helped.

[Homertrix]

thing is, i've never fully filled the tape until i taped over it totally in black and the 2nd time, i hadn't used the cams vcr at all... maybe i need to completly fill the tape each time???

[t-h-e-w-h-o]

somewhere along the line did you switch to 16x9 on the hc21 or have you not touched any of that stuff?

[Homertrix]

nope.. haven't switched... all comes out on a 4:3 720x576... can't understand it

[takeshi]

Dropped frames are quite often due to hard drive performance issues. You might want to find a utility to test your read and write speeds on the drive. Additionally, JVC cameras have a bad tendency of having weird compatibility issues. I don't know if Adobe publishes compatibility guides on their site for Premiere Pro like they did with older versions but that would be worth checking. You might want to try whatever capture app it is that everyone of this forum is really fond of. It seems to work really well for many people.