As a first step I would try a different firewire cable.
Had problems with cables in the past.
Uwe
On 3/26/2012 7:44 PM, John Favaro wrote:
>
> I have a simple setup that is admittedly a few years old now: three PAL
> cameras using
>
> Mini DV, all several years old, no HD, PP2 to process. After filming I
> capture the DV to
>
> disk through firewire. All very straightforward and has worked fine for
> years.
>
> A while ago, one of the cameras started to act funny: after capturing
> the DV onto the
>
> hard disk through PP2, the audio was spotty. Every second or so there
> was a gap -
>
> literally, you could see it in the waveform. So I would just use another
> camera for the
>
> firewire download.
>
> But now all the cameras have that problem. I was figuring I had a bunch
> of broken
>
> cameras, when I realized that inside the cameras, the audio did not have
> this problem.
>
> They would play back fine inside the cameras.
>
> Gradually I came to the conclusion that the problem is not the cameras
> but the firewire
>
> transfer. Something seems to have "broken" there. It's certainly not a
> problem of PP2
>
> because I tried it with MovieMaker and a couple of other programs,
> always with the same
>
> results.
>
> So I'm wondering what's going on. I guess the first question is: has
> anybody encountered
>
> this type of problem? I'm wondering if the firewire interface can
> "degenerate". I also
>
> tried it on two different disks, too, with no difference in results. The
> problem seems
>
> genuinely to be in the firewire transfer, and probably on the computer's
> side.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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