Yet another save to DV problem - LONG

[Jay Ross]

I have a new Canon Optura 300 DV Camera.

I am connecting it via firewire to my PC through my
Creative Audigy Gamer 1394 port.

I have a fresh copy of XP installed, and followed
several "tuning" sites to improve performance.

My problem: saving to DV does not work due to constant
skipping. I was saving a 10 minute video direct from MM2,
following PapaJohn's advice I saved the video to AVI and
then tried WinDV or DVIO to send it to the camera. Well
saving to the AVI worked fine, and playback was smooth in
Windows Media Player. WinDV had the same problems
writing to the camera as MM2, and DVIO just crashes with
out accomplishing anything.

I have read through all of January's postings and it
really does not seem that I am the only person with this
problem... I can't tell if the problem is related to the
firewire card, the driver, the cable, or the camera.

I think that my testing so far has elminated system
performance and software as suspects.

I am going to try send the video using my Laptop and it's
firewire port to try and rule that out.. however it is
using the same darn windows OHCI driver... if that is the
problem I am just out of options!

I even tried a 20 second AVI and tried using both MM2 and
WinDV to transfer it with the same problem!

PapaJohn, you mention the Canon Optura 20 in your
hardware list, but not the 300. You mentioned that the
camera had the same problems that mine is having... did
you ever resolve it?

Have any of the rest of you who have been having this
problem solved it?

Sorry for the long message, but I would really like to
solve this problem.

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Jay,

That info on my website about the Optura 20 is from some posts.... I don't
have any personal experience with one.

Maybe someone with your camera will help.

PapaJohn

 

[ahhnold]

some thoughts come to mind:

1. Is your hard disk formatted as NTFS
2. Fragementation of files on hard disk
3. Background processes or applications interfering with DV interface.
COuld be anything from a printer driver/spooler to malware running in
the background. Pushing back to tape is more constraining than writing
the file to disk so these could be a trouble spot.

 

[Guest]

ahhnold,

1. Yes it is
2. I defragged it and ran check disk
3. I have a hardware profile dedicated to video editing
where everything is turned off!

 

[Jay Ross]

News Flash...

I was able to make it work using DVAPP.EXE... still skips
if I use WinDV or MM2 to transfer back, but DVAPP.EXE
works flawlessly.

I guess I cannot complain... MM2 was free after all.

 

[ahhnold]

Glad to here you found a solution. FYI there is another little app out
there called DVIO (i found on dvdrhelp.com) that moves DV-AVI files
between PC and camcorder quite nicely too.

 

[Pierre]

Hi,

that's good news. I am having the same problems as yours
+ problem with the sound when I save in AVI format.
Thanks to this site and the PapaJohn I might have a
solution. I will try this tomorrow.

By the way, where did you download DVAPP.EXE?

 

[Mookie]

When I tried to save, it always returned the message that the movie
could not be saved. Check.... Blah blah blah..

I thought I'd changed everything to point to the drive with plenty of
space, but there's a spot where you have to specify the temp area.
Sure enough, THAT was pointing to my smallest drive.

When I changed that, the save went quickly.

I'm embarassed it took me so long to finally check there.

Mike

 

[Mookie]

Of course............

Then I checked in after I returned home, and MovieMaker got to 95% and
hung.

It wasn't 'not responding.'

It just wasn't doing anything but going from 21 minutes left to 22
minutes left to 23 minutes.... Yada Yada Yada.

So I guess I'm STILL lost. Sorry!

Mike