Hi hope some one can help me. I have the DV now AV card installed in a windows 98se computer. But when i come to capture analoge video longer then 20min i get an error message saying file limit reached. I was told that the capture was unlimited only by the disk space as it saved the files in 2Gb Chunks.
please help.
There is no file size limitation to the video files captured by DV.now AV. That is why under Windows NT and 2000 you are only limited by the size of the hard drive.
If you work with Win98 or ME you have a 4GB limitation which is based on the operating system (FAT32).
FAST UK Technical Support
Perhaps this could be addressed in the next software update to allow long clips to be captured on the win98 platform as do the matrox RT2000 and Pinnical DV500
I'd be willing to wager this will be in the next driver release. 1.6?
An internal utility that will automatically split the capture at, say, the 3.5 gig point to a new file!
Yeah! The AVMaster had thes feature and it always worked perfecyly!
Steve
hehe.. Yes. It will be in the next driver revision.
More praise for the guys at Fast/Dazzle for making a great product, with excellent support!
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[B]hehe.. Yes. It will be in the next driver revision.
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Can anyone verify this? I'm considering putting Windows2000 on an NTFS partition, adding another drive, etc. It sure would be easier for me if there were going to be a software workaround in the FAST.forward software.
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Hehe.. Couldn't resist huh Joe?.. hehe..
(neither could I..)
:~)
The man wanted verification. What better verification than a screen shot. You're right, I couldn't resist. I'm sure it'll be out in a couple of weeks anyway.
Joe, What camera are you using? I found that with the 1.6 drivers (I know.. they aren't supported *yet*) I get lockups. Here's what happens. When I connect my XL1 and start fast forward, all is fine. As soon as I try to control the XL1 fast forward has errors and shuts down. Twice it even re-booted my PC. Now, the other day, I had my VCR connected to the breakout box and couldn't get the video from my XL1 to overlay, but it would capture, and control the camera just fine. I figured the overlay problem was just because the drivers may not be complete, well, I disconnected the SVHS VCR and *poof* I have overlay! but.. Now it locks up. Has this happened to you?
Hopefully the Beta testers are feeding all this backand developers are taking note so it can be corected by the time 1.6 is released to the masses, with the Premiere 6.0 upgrade!
I have the same problem with a SONY TRV 110, as soon as I try to FForward from the FAST interface, I got locked up, if I do the same from the camcorder it works ! Looks like if the reels inertia is causing a problem ?
FUNNIY THAT YOUR MACHINES LOCK UP LIE THAT CAUSE MY CARD WAS WORKING FINE TOO TILL LAST NIGHT AND POOF IT WOULD NOT WORK IT WOULD LOCK UP AT THE POINT I TRIED SHUTTLING THE CAMERA THROUGH FASTFORWARD ( I AM USING THE VX1000 ) AND MY MACHINE LOCKED UP AND I HAD TO FORMAT MY DRIVES AND REINSTALL MY OS. I COULDNT FIGURE WHY IT SHUTDOWN LIKE THAT
dazzlemenow,
Did it break your keyboard too? I've never seen a piece of hardware cause such symptoms.
BTH
Okay.. I got tired of messing with it, so I went back to the beta drivers (not 1.6 but the ones with the SP1). We'll see if it still causes errors. If so, I'll shoot tech support an email.
Nope... still having lockups. Dunno what to do besides delete all drivers and make it a standard firewire port.
I got the Microsoft DV update from Joe. I'll try it first and see if it helps.
(thanks Joe)
Ran into a thing with lockup trying to do firewire capture this evening. Turns out uninstalling and reinstalling the build 207a drivers cleared things. Apparently something trashed the installation, either the drivers or the registry. Love that Windoze!
I THINK I FIXED THE FIREWIRE CAPTURE PROBLEM I WAS GETTING (CLIPPER.EXE ERROR ) UM I REINSTALLED ALL SOFTWARE TO NO AVAIL BUT I COULD CAPTURE WITH ONLY DV OUTPUT SELECTED WHEN DOING A DV CAPTURE AND NO PROBLEMS SO I THINK WHEN CAPTURING FROM DV SELECT ONLY DV OUTPUT. I THINK THAT WAS THE PROBLEM
Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try tonight and let you know. Oh, btw. You didn't hafta shout at me for me to hear ya!.. hehe (Caps Lock)
Yep! That did the trick. No more lockups.. Works perfect now. I just hafta capture everything, then edit and then change output to analog to go back to analog based tape. I never go back to DV because I don't wish to waste tape. This is one of the other bennefits to the DV Now.AV. You can go straight out to analog tape be it VHS, SVHS or whatever without having to use your valuable camera.
Just a note: it may well be worth recording back to DV if you are going to send the tape to a duplication service to have the VHS copies made. (Provided of course that the service supports copying from DV material.)