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Posted by P.C. Ford on 09/26/41 11:37
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:12:04 -0800, "Richard Crowley"
<rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote:
>"P.C. Ford" wrote ...
>> I'm on a pc, 2.8, good Asus board, 1 gig memory.. Premiere 6
>>
>> Having audio drops on playback of tape. Timeline plays fine. Sounds
>> fine when exporting to tape. But when played back has drops!!!!
>>
>> Cleaned heads on recorder, changed recorder still same.
>>
>> Aaaaack! Have to have project done by weekend. Have to output my work
>> and take it to editor...
>>
>> Any ideas???
>
>Installed anything recently?
>Updated anything recently?
>
>Connected to LAN?
>Connected to internet?
>
>Other things running?
>
>I'd certainly disconnect any network connections
>and stop all network processes.
>I'd use End-it-All (or whatever that newer thing
>is that replaces it) to kill off any extraneous
>processes, and of course don't use the computer
>for anything else while exporting.
>
>You you hear gaps while exporting/recording?
Thanks Richard.
The weird thing is that you could not hear drops on the timeline nor
when exporting. (Headphones plugged directly into recorder.)
I had done the rough edit and if we could not get the footage onto my
editor's Mac it would cost hours to go back to the beginning.
My editor had trouble with his Mac as well. He is an excellent editor
at one of the major post houses here in Seattle. Twenty plus years of
professional editing. But for most of his time editing he has done
tape to tape stuff. He does not know a lot about NLEs or even
computers.
To continue with my saga: I was unplugged from lan and 'net. I turned
off anti-virus.
I recently bought an external Western Digital drive. I had trouble
with the drive. The on/off buttons would not work reliably and it
would not link to computer if though it had power to it and disc was
spinning.
Anyway, because I had the lan disconnected, I assumed that the
external was out of the picture. I know, DOH. What can I say, it's
been a long week.
So, I called my tech and he pointed out the error of my thinking. He
thought the drive controller was screwing up data after it left the
'puter. He said the good audio that I was hearing was from inside the
computer.
Anyway, we got the stuff loaded onto my editor's Mac. And by 11 last
night we had about 13 minutes done of the approximately 40 minute
piece.
The carry-away lesson: I always have bought Western Digital. so when I
wanted an external I got a WD. My tech said it was a bad idea.
He was right.
It was a Western Digital Dual-option Combo WDXB1600JBRNN 160GB.
Wasted days because of this POS. Never going to buy WD again.
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