Hello..you are now reading a message by a desparate man at the end of his wits, ready to pull the remaining 4 hair out of my head. I've installed Premiere 6 as well as the 6.02patch. For some ungodly reason when I try to capture the footage from my Sony MiniDV (TRV-18) to my HD, the sound during the capturing process is extremely choppy. Sometimes it works fine and gets choppy as soon as I start capturing. When I try to play back my "captured" video in the preview and editing window, the sound is almost non existent, and the video plays at a rate of less than 1fps. Is this a codec issue? I'm pretty sure I have all the codecs that I need. Are there any other codecs I can download? If so, please let me know where. I don't know what else I can do. I've tried capturing on different computers and it worked fine. My second question is what resolution should I capture with if I intend to export my final product to VHS, DVD or VCD. Is the 720 by 480, 48khz resolution ok,or should I use a smaller one? Please help me with this or else my home porn video industry will never take off!!! Just kidding of course. Gotta run...Spielberg is honking his horn.
Here are my system specs.
AMD XP1600
GA-VRX7 motherboard
512 MB ram (DDR)
2 x 20gb removable HD's
IDE DVD-ROM
SCSI internal Sony CD-RW
Win 2000 Pro OS

Hock the gear you have now.

But a G4 w/ superdrive.

Film on!

Dude, as much as I appreciate your help it doesn't do much for me. I mean it's about the same as me saying...my '76 Pinto stalls at every Pedestrian crossing and you telling me to buy a Ferrari. How ever I still appreciate your help. I've captured and edited vids on systems much slower than this one so I know it can be done. CHeers

one thing, not enough HD. 40 gigs is not even close to being enough. What type of vid card do you have? Also is your cameras settins put to output mode? just a thought. also the resolution is fine for multi formats.

You're beautiful, just touch it.

Well, my HD's are removable as I said, so I can shove either a 20 or 120 GB in there. But all I wanna do for now is just to capture a few short clips for experimentation so I don't think I'll need that much HD space for now. My Vid card is an ASUS n'vidia GeForce4 440 MMX 64mb ram. I'm sure my camera settings are ok, I've been using the same settings when I captured video on the other machines. Thanks for your help

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one thing, not enough HD. 40 gigs is not even close to being enough.

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I laugh at your theories of impossibility. I edit on a 20 gig hard drive that has been stripped down to just the essential programs and my video stuff. I edit one scene at a time, export that finished scene as an AVI file, delete all of my source footage, and then start all over again with a new scene. 40 gigs can be plenty if you're careful with it.

--Alan

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yeah 40gigs is plenty. Are your hardrives set to DMA mode? That helps. Also are they Exterior firewire Hard drives? Those are mainly for storage not capture. Also, Do you have a hacked version of windows? That could cause many problems With DV drivers and other drivers as well. Finally its best to have a 7200rpm hard drive rather then the 5200rpm one(something like that).

Well both my HD's are IDE in removable cradles. They are both 7200 rpm. As for my W2K being pirated I'd rather not go into that in case that Homo Bill Gates happends to read this forum but you get the point. I think I'll resort to building a Pentium based system. Bigger L2 cache, faster FSB, we'll see what happends. Thanks for all the help guys and keep filming!

Your PC specs seem fine to me. (I run the same motherboard!)

I would first suggest the risky but worth it BIOS update. Don't worry, you've got two bios chips on your MB so if it screws up your pc will still work.

Then, try "obtaining" a copy of MainConcept's DV codec ... there's a trial version on their website. http://www.mainconcept.de/ I think. One of the best DV codecs for the PC.

Try using a different playback deck or camera for importing your footage. Works for me usually.

Then, check in Premiere's device control settings. In my copy of 6.5, they can be found in File > Capture > Movie Capture. Click on Edit in the prefs box, a window should open. Look for Device Control at the bottom. Make sure DV Device Control is highlighed and click Options below it. Make sure the options in that window are set appropriately for your camera. (The generic options aren't terribly good).

Final option, check for a dip switch on your motherboard marked On. You say you've a XP 1600+? Make sure that switch ISN'T on ON. Set it to OFF (or blank on my mb). This'll make sure your FSB speed is set to 133 which is correct for that processor.

Phew! On with your second question.

As far as exporting to VCD goes, Premiere 6.5 has a wonderful mpeg exporter which oddly enough is located in the export options. It's pretty simple to use and the options are fairly self explanatory.

Good luck!

I'm off to buy a Mac Powerbook now.

Richard.