Premiere DV problems...

[drewson99]

1) my movie caps "freeze" at about 15 minutes (yes, it is NTFS)

2) the framerate isn't a hard 29.97, it varies from 29.913 to 29.937 so I can't merge the files in Vdub since they have slightly different framerates.

I am also wondering if this will cause problems when encoding to MPEG2 for DVD (will it?)

Andy

[racer-x]

Since you said you have NTFS, it should capture until you run out of tape or HDD. The frame rates seem a little low. Are you dropping frames? If yes than it could be Tape or camera.
If you're not dropping frames, and you can only cap 15min at a time, then use batch capture. You can set capture points in 15min increments and cap multiple clips. You can merge the clips in the Timeline.
The only way to know if will come out allright on Mpeg-2 is to try it.

[BJ_M]

what version of of premiere are you using ?

[yg1968]

You can try capturing with a different program and then importing the file in Premiere. For example DVIO or DVapp.

[drewson99]

it stops at the exact same time, every time - 3.03 GB (and when I look at file proberties, they are the same size to the byte)

i thought it might be a memory underrun/overrun problem but it does the same on both my PCs which have different types and amounts of RAM.

I'd love to use DVIO (which by the way doesn't freeze) but the audio is out of sync.

anybody?

Premiere 6 btw

[yg1968]

Try playing the DV file with PowerDVD to see if it's still out of sync. Sometimes interlacing will cause playback to be out of sync with Windows Media Player. In other words, the file is actually in sync but the player doesn't properly de-interlaced the video upon playback (which makes the video seem out of sync).