On Wed, 04 Nov 1998 19:51:28 GMT, montanai@hotmail.com (BladE) wrote:

>I hope someone can help me, Iim in need of desperate help, I am
>running a daul PII300 with 256 rams, a 8.1 eide hd for
>applications(where my VideoAction, Premiere, and Spark software are
>installed) and also a Seagate Cheetah 9.1 UWSCSI hd for capturing and
>storing the clips, the Spark card using with VideoAction NT v6.2 and
>Premiere v5.1 running windowsNT v4.0 (sp3) and with a Canon Oputra;
>trying to accomplish this procedure, but no luck..no the last 5 month
>:(
>Since...i dont have all the hd space to store a hours' worth of
>movie....I need to do use DVSoft Print to Video or export straight to
>my DVdevice(Optura)...but each and everytime, it seems like it is
>skipping or dropping frames when going through the transistions parts
>and also during the cuts..it plays fine when it is just normal clips.
>I've talk to tech suppost and all..searching all over for answers, but
>no luck..I hope someone out there has or know what my problems is and
>can help, I would greatly appreciate any help or advice. thanks in
>advance!
>plz help..

I'm assuming you are trying to output to the camcorder without
first making new AVI files of your edited material? If so, my
K6-233 sure can't do that! (It can't go more than a few minutes,
even with only straight-cuts.) Big UDMA drives are cheap now, so
adding enough drive space to edit fairly long videos can be had for
a reasonable price. The Spark software can be used to seamlessly
play back multiple (under 2-gig/9.5-minute) AVI files to the
camcorder. If this isn't the problem, mis-set audio-interleave
numbers can also cause problems - beyond that, adjusting other
hardware settings (covered here in the last several weeks...)
may help. Good luck - but I think you may need to first save
edited material to AVI files at this level of hardware, alas...
(You can often move progressively through the video, capturing
some material, editing it, saving the rendered material as AVI
files, deleting the original material and capturing more, until
you have only the last bit of raw material on the HD's, plus
all your finished AVI parts for the final video - which can then
be sent to tape [I make a couple of tape copies for safety as I
finish parts, then in the end, I make 2 or 3 "master" tapes and
dump everything else]. BTW, it is also a good idea to keep two
copies of Premiere going, occasionally saving to the one not
in current use - prevents major losses if a crash occurs during
saving...).