Dropped Frames

normalone wrote on 11/21/2004, 9:42 PM
Hello everybody—

I have read everything in your forum about my problem with heinous frame droppage, but am still very puzzled and frustrated! I’m using Canopus ADVC100 to capture vhs tapes from my vcr to Vegas, and it’s dropping huge amounts of frames.

• I have a less than yr-old Dell 8300
• 2 Western Digital hard drives, one dedicated to media files
• Have done the XP serv pk 2 patch to correct 1394 issue
• On IDE controller settings enabled DMA on both hard drives
• Got rid of unneccessary programs, defragged, disabled stuff like Norton auto updates, minimized capture window, etc
• Turned off scene detection & dv device control
• Am running the firewire for Canopus through Soundblaster Audigy card

Per somebody’s forum suggestion, I tried to capture w/ moviemaker, which was successful and looked amazingly good. However, when I opened this test clip in Vegas, saved it as a veg file and played it from the timeline, the video and audio were really jerky (dropping frames) and it looked pixilated and cruddy.

Can anyone help?? Is it a Vegas problem, or a capture problem? I would really like to use Vegas for editing—that’s why I bought it! And would prefer to capture through it if possible.

Do I need to get an ADS Pyro card/port?

Also, how do I set Vegas audio & video temp folders to my media drive?

When setting the computer to enable DMA, the only DMA option was “enable DMA if available.” How do I find out if it’s available?

Any ideas????










Comments

Red96TA wrote on 11/22/2004, 12:27 AM
Have you tried looking at www.videohelp.com for help in this area? They have forums dedicated to this type of transfer.

Have you tried running the vhs tape into a miniDV cam first, then using VV to capture the DV footage? I know my JVC does this.

You could try transcoding the canopus file into another format that VV likes...ie VirtualDub.

Lastly, your canopus codec may have enocoded things so high that when you look at it in VV that it LOOKS clipped, but isn't. Try rendering a few minutes of it in VV and see if the clipping still occurs.
johnmeyer wrote on 11/22/2004, 7:48 AM
Dropped frame FAQ at VASST:

Dropped Frame FAQ

I would suspect one of two things.

1. Background processes. The FAQ describes how to determine what is running and how to stop them. Anti-virus programs, as well as viruses themselves, or adware, can really screw up performance.

2. Firewire drives. Do you have any Firewire drives attached? These have been known to cause all sorts of problems.