techie question

[Kathy S]

My friend has just bought a second hand capture card and he's having major problems. For a start it all crashed and he had to reformat his hard drive. He has everything installed and it works- it's just dropping frames, and crashing a lot and been a general a*!$%$&%e. He had problems with the driver as it wont let him install the correct driver- (he knows a lot more about computers and I think I have missed a few points here) but basically the problem seems to be with the driver- has anyone any ideas or pointers please?

It's a Matrox RT 2000 by the way

cheers

Kathy

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[Kathy S]

Thank you for the overwhelming response- but we have managed to fix it now anyway (installing the wrong driver- just to see what happens type thing) Loz is considerably happier and so am I. Though I am a tad bit disturbed by the little old women who seem content on turning my home into a small shop.

kathy

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[Ralph Snart]

do not filp, doll.
take the problems one at a time and keep detailed notes.
as the pregnant woman said in the delivery room "getting it in now seemes like a small problem."
If I can project upon your next problems depending on the software you are using.
I use vw3 mostly for its chroma key functions.
defragment your hard drive often.
save or justify often, as you yould a word document.
produce often (why I have no freaking idea it just seems to cut down on crashes)
This advice is not for everyone as I run ATI and DC 10.
uncle Ralph also has two really nifty hints on dc 10 production and CGI, possibly related to the problems you will experience.
They have to do with file structure.

all the best
Ralph

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[This message has been edited by Ralph Snart (edited September 29, 2001).]

[Ralph Snart]

that was supposed to to be would

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[Kathy S]

Cheers Ralph- not going to be using CGI or anything technical as yet- just good old premier- but it is always a good idea to keep saving. His computer is now a lot better than it was before. I have been editing on a mac- and I have to say i am nearly a convert- but you'll have to wait until i have a go on his new computer for that one. We have to get the film edited by the 8th for a screening a few days later- and we have recorded sound seperatly so getting the sound will take an age- oh well

kathy

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[eddie]

Hi There

Dont know if this will help, but dropping frames is often because you are trying to access (write data from, or to) the hard disk at too high a rate. Try reducing the data rate.

All the best

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[deanl]

Hey there.

If your using Premier, it has a function that automaticly saves your work every five minutes or whatever time you want it to. Dont most word processing programs do that now. Final Draft does.

Despin out.

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"Ive got bad feeling about this."

[Ralph Snart]

There are a number of factors that can effect this, however unless you are attemping to sync dialog a fast and dirty method if you have the proper patch cords is to prepare your video in one program and your audio in another and then start them as required when you transfer to VHS.
as an example:
video is stored in say for instance in VW3 but your audio, music, traffic sounds, whatever have been recorded through windows movie maker.
So what you do is start your VHS recording then run Vw3 and windows media player at the same time.
from there you can replay the vhs back into your capture software and off you go into the wild blue yonder.

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