PD-170/Premiere Pro problem

[Bucky_Katt]

After uploading my video into my NLE system (Windows XP AMD dual processor), I tried using the camera as a playback monitor. While connected to the firewire port and the camera connected to a video monitor so I can view the video as I edit. The camera is in VCR mode. After 30 minutes of editing my computer will freeze up and I have to reboot The system has 2 Gigs of Ram and 2.4 GHz processors and a RAID. Any way to prevent this problem?

[edDV]

I've never seen this problem except for disk full situations. Is your Premiere scratch drive on the RAID? That could be filling your OS drive.

PS, you didn't say but you should have your OS on a separate drive from your video capture drive (RAID) for video editing apps.

[Bucky_Katt]

Sure, RAID is just for captured video, scratch is on seperate partitions.

[edDV]

I put scratch and captured video on the same capture drive partition. You certainly don't want the scratch file on the OS drive. If its on a different drive, there will be alot of disk to disk or partition to partition copies from scratch file to capture drive. If both are on the capture drive you will see faster performance.

[Bucky_Katt]

I think the problem is with my firewire card. I don't see anything in the capture screen while its recording, though I never get any dropped frames.

[pijetro]

While connected to the firewire port and the camera connected to a video monitor so I can view the video as I edit.

Sorry, just an observation here...Your camera should be connected to the firewire port, and preview will depend on your general settings, and whether DV playback is checked or not..
I'm assuming you want your camera as the playback device.

Personally, i've got three h.d.d.
One for O.S., one for scratchpad/conformed audio/Video preview files and a third raid set for capture..

No probs for playback on a P3 1Ghz..Although render times and/or encodes kill me . :P :P

[Bucky_Katt]

Yes the camera is the playback when I freeze up, but do you see a preview on the capture box in Premiere while you're capturing video from the camera?

My drives are set up the same way.

[pijetro]

but do you see a preview on the capture box in Premiere while you're capturing video from the camera?

Definately..
You don't have hyperthreading, or something out of the ordinary running in the background do you??

[Bucky_Katt]

Success! The problem is XP Service Pack 2

I had to load the old SP1 drivers for the firewire card. Once I rebooted all my problems went away.[/b]

[pijetro]

Success! The problem is XP Service Pack 2

Maybe this should be a sticky..

I had to load the old SP1 drivers for the firewire card.

How did you do this??
Couldn't you have simply done a system restore, and go to a previous configuration???

Congrats btw....