Re: Frames dropped: because of tape quality ?
- From: "Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:38:42 -0800
"Spendius" wrote ...
"Richard Crowley" wrote:How many times is "over and over"? If it is 2 or 3 then it seemsI made about 20 films within 5 years more or less.
more liekely that something else is wrong. If it is 10-12 (or even
On ONE tape?
The question wasn't how many films you have made.
You came here asking whether re-using a tape could
cause the problems you are seeing, and you still have
not told us how many *times* you are re-using a tape.
Windows machines tend to build up "cruft" as they go along. It isn't impossible that your comptuer has become less capable of dropout-free performance
What is "cruft" ?
It is the junk that builds up over time on any computer.
It makes the comptuer gradually slower, frequently so
gradually that you don't notice the effect until you wake
up one day and realize that something seems to be taking
a lot longer or running slower than it used to. (Or that
you can't capture video any more without dropouts.)
Microsoft Windows seems particularly prone to this effect, but that is partially because so many people are running it.
Is there a way to tell capturing software NOT TO drop
any frame ?
The software doesn't intentionally drop any frames. It is
*prevented* from capturing every frame by things outside
its control (like what is happening with the operating system and any other software that may be running at the time.)
Often people add things like wireless networking (etc.)
and don't realize the overhead it takes. They keep adding
things that take "just a little" horsepower, and before you
know it, the maching is bogged down with all the "littles".
Some software can be configured to abort if it drops a
frame (so that you know about it before wasting a lot
of time, etc.)
we don't have a clue what "for ages" means to you, either.5 years.
A LOT can happen to a computer (and a camcorder) over 5 years. The PCs I use for video editing are isolated from the internet and NEVER "updated", and don't run any "anti-virus" or that sort of overhead. But of course you could not get away with that on a computer connected to
the internet.
And camcorders are quite complex internally. Just because
they seem small and "automatic" doesn't mean that there
aren't a lot of critical things happening inside. Perhaps one
inadvertent advantage of re-using the same tape since day
one is that you have spared your camcorder of the cassette
eject and reload cycles.
And while you're at it, get a head cleaning cassette and run it
for 10-15 seconds (or whatever the mfg. recommends).
I will ! (and another cassette as well)
Most of us are just astounded (and aghast) that you could use a single tape for so long.
.
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