DV capture problem with Firewire PCI card > 14GB on NTFS

[eskimojan]

Hi all !

- I'm having problems capturing my home videos.
When I capture 1 hour of my own home videos using Adobe Premiere 6.02 (latest patch) in one file on the NTFS formatted harddrive (empty harddrive), the filesize is about 14-15GB. That works just fine, with no dropped frames or anything. But the thing is that on the last 15 minuttes or so of the raw AVI, the frames starts clipping a few ms back and then forth. Very annoing. Capturing is DV PAL 720x576.

Do I have to do capturing in steps < 4GB files?

Has anyone done capturing of files at that size with no problems ?

Regards
EskimoJan

My current setup: Windows 2000 Pro (SP2+all later PreSP3 updates), AMD1700+, Asus A7V333, 256MB PC2700, Geforce 2 Pro, Maxtor D740X 40GB (Fat32), IBM 120GXP 60GB (NTFS), Western Digital Firewire PCI, Sound Blaster Live!, HP DVD100i, Sony410 Digital 8.

[Dragonsf]

My captured files are up to 20GB big,but some dropped frames (about 1 per minute).But no altering of frames.(BTW what exactly is this "clipping" you mentioned?
My systems is nearly the same, only ATHLON 1.2Ghz

[eskimojan]

I'll try to explain it this way:
On the last 15 minuttes or so, the Raw AVI starts to jump back and forth (but still continueing), as if it was like an old record with scratches.

I'll try to do another capture tonight - I have just downloaded a new bios for my motherboard.

EskimoJan

[Dragonsf]

I'll try to explain it this way:
On the last 15 minuttes or so, the Raw AVI starts to jump back and forth (but still continueing), as if it was like an old record with scratches.

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EskimoJan

You mean, some frames are repeating ? And the audio too?
This sounds like a buffer problem of your capture program.
Have you tried another capture program and can this be seen in the preview too ?

[eskimojan]

Yep, I have done the same capturing using Ulead Studio 4 SE (Software that came with the Firewire card), with no problems, but Ulead sucks at editing. And what I have captured with Ulead, Adobe Premiere cannot read and thats weird. Maybe Ulead uses its own native AVI format ?

EskimoJan

[Dragonsf]

I don't know about MS 4.0 (I'm using 6.0 or 6.5), have no probs with editing.AFAIK there are just to DV avi formats type-1 (newer) and type-2.I believe, Premiere uses type-2 and ulead captures prudes type-1, which BTW doesn't explain your problem (at leats to me):Try DvApp (from DirektX SDK) for capturing, you capture to both formats.

[eskimojan]

I found that it was not an issue with Adobe Premiere at all. I did a completely new raw capture and used an old version of TMPGenc to convert it all to MPEG2. Then used SpruceUpDVD to make a DVD with 2 menus and 12 chapters and burned it with NERO 5580 (HP DVD100i) onto a HP DVD+RW media. I was amazed how good it looked and played on my Sony DVP-NS400d player. Thanks anyway !