Not capturing but exporting back to DV tape, partial picture

[Steve Mackay]

I have 4 hours of DV I have managed to caputre to my computer without any loss of frames. However now that I have made a 1 hour long movie (using Adobe Premier 6.0) I cannot export it back to tape without encountering problems.

The problem - in the hour long movie there are about 5 or 6 areas where the movie has not transferred fully to tape. It is not complete frame loss but seems like only partial frames being captured to tape. The sound goes all garbled and in some cases I can see the blue screen as if the video camera is not getting a signal. This usually lasts for anywhere between .5 seconds and 3 seconds.

Here is what I am using:-
Canon Elura 2MC video camera
Pinnacle Express firewire card
AMD 1700 Processor
Nividia Gforce 256 graphics card
512Mb DDR ram
Asus mother board - I think it is a K7
1 x 60GB hard drive with operating system and video editing software installed
2 x 40GB hard drives with RAID striped for fast access

Software :-
Windows XP upgraded from 98 (latest patches included)
Premier 6.0 (with all patches)

To try and get this to work I have switched the location of my firewire card. I've also connected my camera to to a different port on the firewire card.

I've disabled all non-essential hardware in the device manager and also stopped all background processes running. I've turned off my screen saver and my power management.

I'm at a loss. Does anybody have any ideas?

My next plan of action is to upgrade my firewire card to maybe a pinnacle DV500. Other thoughts are to re-install my OS with an OEM version rather than an upgrade.

Help really appreciated - it is so frustrating to have spent all that time on a movie only to have to endure 'rough spots'.

[ItsMe]

Have you tried rendering the project to disk (AVI DV) first and then sending the rendered file to the camera?

[Xesdeeni]

It sounds like the problem is in the camera. I think if there were a data flow issue from the card to the camera, the software would recognize the loss of connection and error out. It could also be a loss of data internally, and ItsMe's suggestion might help. But, have you tried a different tape? Are you on A/C power? I've had both of these things cause problems like you describe.

Xesdeeni

[Steve Mackay]

Thanks for the interest. I am connected to the A/Cwith the camera. I have also tried a smaller version of the project converted to avi and then tried to export it to tape, same problem.

I've tried a new tape.

I was thinking of borrowing a friends camera and trying to record it to tape to rule out the camera thing.


Steve

[The village idiot]

Build the movie back to a file as DV. Then use DVio to transfer it back to tape. Or try EditStudio from http://www.puremotion.com to make new edits, and copy back to tape. It has a 30 day demo that will work without watermarks. DVio is free, check the tools section at left.