Need Help==Dropping Frames in Premiere 6

[RimmeR]

Why?
Even if preview is off.

Win Xp Pro 1.4 Athlon, DDR, Firewire.80 gig.
Need Help Please
Rimmer

[bvcproductions]

I had the same problem and sometimes still do. The harddrive your capturing to has to be 7200rpm fast and a good tip when capturing in Premiere is to capture the video first without sound and then the audio without video. After you've captured everything, just put them in the video and sound fields.

[vcdfreak]

Make sure you turn off other software when you run premiere. Especially in W2K or XP, a lots of services are running in the background that are loading your CPU. If possible, turn off services that you don't really need. You can find pages that tell you optimize your W2K or XP using the search engine.

One more important thing is to use a standalone harddrive for your capture/project/preview files (scratch disk). Which means the haddrive is on a separate IDE port from your C Drive. This also means that there is a separate IDE cable connected to the scratch disk. The similar applies to prevent CDRW Drive to run into buffer underrun problem. You need to place it on a separate IDE port with your C Drive or Drive that you get your file(s) to burn from.

If you have 512MB or more, you know you can place your entire W2K OS into your physical memory by manipulating your registry. That will free up your harddrive traffic a lot and result in more harddrive bandwidth for premiere when it comes to renderring and preview.

[duke669]

I agree about having the 7200rpm hard drives. I had two 5400rpm drives and had many frames dropped. Bought two 30GB drives (7200rpm) and I rarely have any frame drops. Also on boot up, I am using Win98, I end just about all the programs running before starting Premiere 6. I usually have about 98% of memory free. I put Win XP on my system and noticed more frame drops and slower response for the buttons on capturing video. If you find that by tweaking Win XP does the trick please post what you did or the sites.

[vcdfreak]

To improve your system performance if you are running W2K with 512MB or more:

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/windows2000_tips.htm#page_executive

Since XP is built using the NT/W2K core, I assume the same applies to XP. Personally I haven't tried XP.


Windows 2000 Services tweak guide
http://www.3dspotlight.net/tweaks/win2k_services/index.shtml

From:

http://win2000tips.home.att.net/Tipstricks.htm



I use my old ATA33 5400 RPM 6Gig Quantum as my scratch disk (on secondary IDE port). So far I seldom encounter any drop frames. I believe drop frames are more frequent for NT/W2K/XP as there are a lots of services running in the background. My optimized Win98SE seldom gives me any drop frame.

Hope this helps.

[Cardosi]

Set your IDE HD to DMA (direct memory access) on
control panel, system, device manager...
maybe it solve the problem. i´m running pIII 700
and DV-500 and no drop frames at all.


Carlos

[RimmeR]

Sorry its been a while for me to reply, but i've been away
1. I have 2 IBM 40 gig "ericson" Hd's both 7200.
2. One is used to capture video, the other for general program files.
3. Hd's are set to DMA.
4. Tried the tweak from link above.
5. Turned off all unnecessary apps, running in background.
6. I have 512 ddr memory.
7. Separate ide channels for capture drive.

I have tried all these solutions. Unfortuantely none solved my problem

I have also used the SCENALYZER demo for capuring film. This you can set it to stop capturing if a frame is dropped. I've captured over 30 mins with this and no dropped frames.
Why does SO CALLED "Profesional"Adobe Premiere 6, drop so many frames. Frames drop virtually from the start of capture.
Any more suggestions welcome...
Thanks Guys
RimmeR


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[faizramzi]

If you use a pci capture card, try to dissable usb, or don't overclock your hardware. And manage your virtual memory.