VCR capuring

[robreed]

I DREAM of coping from VCR to Dvd.
I am caturing from VCR through my Panasonic DV camcorder into my firewire card.Using ABOBE PREMIERE.
If the VCR tape is not of immaculate quality it drops frames.,and the audio drifts.
What is to blame????
I have a 7200 hard disk.1700XP computer.512 ram.
Any thoughts.

[Savant]

I'm capuring VCR video through my ATI AIW Radeon with VirtualDub and I get perfect captures. Then I process the raw AVI with TMPGenc and I can get a 2-pass VBR data rate of 2.7M and it looks good on DVD.

Regards,

Savant

[ktajudeen]

Make sure the DMA is set active in your HD properties.
I had the same problem.

[robreed]

Thanks ,butttt....
When I record fromDvd it NEVER drops frames and when I record from the DVD camera it Never drops frames .Only from sub quality VHS.Is Virtual dub better than Premiere for caturing.
Also In Wind XP I cant see a DMA box to tick>>>>
Thanks again..

[Pinnacle-Pro 1 Man]

Let me save you tons of time:

Always have loads of RDRAM, 7200 HD speed minimum, 1.3ghz CPU +, Pinnacle Pro-I card and an industrial Panasonic SVHS DECK with PRO-VTR by Pipeline Digital to capture footage with Premier 6.02 aboard.

This is an ideal set up for capturing vintage family footage to a time-line using the PRO-I Pinnacle card, (Adobe Premier 6.02) exporting it as an MPEG2 file with Audio .WAV to the Impression Pro authroring program to produce the ONLY decent final production which is.....................DVD at the highest resolution. All lower resolutions below 720 are a waste of time IMHO.

lol

[ferret]

It only happens from a vcr? See if you VCR has automatic tracking or staplizing. If so turn it off and do it manually at the start of the tape.
and of course turn off all background stuff (A/V, IM, screensavers, powermgt, & video preview).
In XP with 512mb of RAM set No Pagefile. You can find DMA settings in device mgr
IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
on each controller