Disk speed problems when "printing" to DV tape from Premiere

[Ed Stradling]

A trio of us are working on a project from different parts of the country, all using Premiere 5.1 and the Miro DV300 card.

I have had problems with capture speed, but that has been resolved. I have never encountered a problem printing to tape. However, another of us (who never experienced capture problems) has discovered problems in “printing to DV device” from within Premiere. The image looks fine on the PC but when printing to DV tape he the frames and the audio stutter noticeably.

We can only think it must be a hard disk read-speed problem, just as my capture problem was a write-speed problem. Has anyone else encountered this sort of difficulty and how can it be resolved?

Thanks very much in advance.

ed

[Rob Hills]

Ed,

I have had similar problems with capture using the DV300 (DV Tools I havn't tried capturing via Adobe 5.1 yet). like you, I never have problems exporting to the DV device from 5.1. What was your cure? Mine is to go to bed and try again tomorrow. I think it might some kind of clock sync problem between the camera and the DV300 card? Re-booting both camera and PC doesn't work but a long cool down period (for all three of us) does. What camera are you using. Mine is a firewire enabled Sony VX9000.

[Rob Hills]

Ed,

I've just read your earlier posting. I now think there is an over heating issue with the DV300 card. I have just spent six hours the whole day happily capturing editing and exporting back to tape with no problems. Now, all of a sudden, I can't export to tape anymore. I've tried shutting down removing teh power from my camera but each time I get the message DV device failed to initialise. It may then go on to output a few frames and then hang. Output to PC seems ok.

I'm sure it's not a disk speed issue. I am using an ultra wide Quantum Atlas which scores around 20Mbytes/s. Until now all my problems have been with capture but now I've got problems with input and output.

My guess is, that if I switch everything off and let it cool down it will work ok tomorrow. Watch this space.

[Ed Stradling]

I think the disk-writing problem is definitely solved with the "turn it off and let it cool down" situation. However, my friend with the disk-reading problem says this doesn't help.