Cannot Capture Video to 2nd HD

[mrf]

I get a message that disk is full, write protected or the title is too long. None of these is the case. Appreciate any insights.

[2Dogs]

Hi mrf,

welcome to the forum. You could do with providing a bit more info.

You show a 30Gb drive - presumably set up as your c: drive, with your OS, all your programs and probably your pagefile. How much space is there on left on the c: drive?

I presume you have the second 160Gb drive as a data partition, likely your d: - though it might be divided up into more than one partition. Is it formatted with an NTFS file system? How much free space is there on it?

Have you defragged the drives recently and checked them for errors? Doing that should rule out drive errors as a cause.

What version of video studio are you using?

How are you capturing (or trying to capture) video?

[sjj1805]

I get a message that disk is full, write protected or the title is too long. None of these is the case. Appreciate any insights.

Further to the reply by 2dogs. Are you refering to the Hard Drive or to the DVD Drive? Your question is very ambiguous.

[mrf]

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:15 am Post subject:

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Very much appreciate your help with this.

You show a 30Gb drive - presumably set up as your c: drive, with your OS, all your programs and probably your pagefile. How much space is there on left on the c: drive?

Yes, a hard drive w Approx 15 Gig available

I presume you have the second 160Gb drive as a data partition, likely your d: - though it might be divided up into more than one partition. Is it formatted with an NTFS file system? How much free space is there on it?

Yes, NTFS Basic - there is less than 10 Mg on the 160 G hard drive w/4 partitions

Have you defragged the drives recently and checked them for errors? Doing that should rule out drive errors as a cause.

Yes, standard diagnostics indicate normal operation of both hard disks

What version of video studio are you using?

VideoStudio 9

How are you capturing (or trying to capture) video?

Capturing video thru IEEE 1394 card. Captures fine to "C" drive. When I try to change the "capture folder" in "movie wizard" I get the message. The directory tree seems "greyed out" in the "capture settings" panel and I can drill through the drives - but get the message when I select anything but "C".

Oddly, the default "C" address is longer than the address I am trying to save to.

Again, thank you again both of you for your help with this.

[2Dogs]

The directory tree seems "greyed out" in the "capture settings" panel

The capture folder address will be greyed out in the "Capture folder:" box, but this is normal. You can't change the capture folder by typing anything directly into the box. Instead, you have to click on the folder icon to the right of the box, and select an appropriate folder.

and I can drill through the drives - but get the message when I select anything but "C".

So is this happening when you click on the folder icon to try to select a capture folder?

As a long shot, you may try re-installing VS9 in case there are any missing components.

Good luck!

[tyamada]

With Video Studio 9 on the top menu select, file, preferences, on the General tab, look at the working folder and change it to the drive and subdirectory you want to capture to.

The Working folder is by default OS Drive\Documents and Settings\User name\Application Data\.....\.....\, you get the idea.

[Ken Berry]

When you say "there is less than 10 Mg on the 160 G hard drive" I assume that you mean there is less than 10 MB of data currently on it, rather than that there is only 10 MB of space left... If it is the former, that should be fine. But I am slightly worried about the fact that this drive is divided into 4, presumably roughly equal, partitions. This could also lead to space problems and messages fairly quickly, depending on the format you are capturing to.

Since you are using Firewire, I assume you are capturing in the recommended DV/AVI format. As you may know, that produces large files -- around 13 GB for one hour of video. When you start editing that, VS9 will create temp files and the like and so will require more space....And then of course you will be producing an end file or files for burning to disc... and so on. In other words, you aren't going to have too much room to manoeuvre if your partitions are only about 40 GB apiece.

Can you remove any or all of the partitions? VS9 will be much more comfortable with one or two larger partitions than 4 relatively small ones. I, for instance, have a 300 GB on-board hard disc (plus two external 180 GB HDDs) dedicated only to video capture/editing/storage... and even then I have to be fairly diligent about cleaning up after I have finished a project!!!

[mrf]

Thank you all for your fine suggestions. I'll move forward with them and see how it goes.

[mrf]

If VS9 gives you a message "cannot copy to..disk might be write protected...etc." , do all this before running VS9

Before running VideoStudio:

First Phase:

Click on 'Start' > Run, then type 'msconfig' on the text box. Go to the 'Start up' tab then disable all of the programs in the list. Switch to the 'Services' tab and check 'Hide All Microsoft Services', then uncheck all the remnant items on the list. Click 'Apply' and restart your computer.

Second Phase:

Turn off all running applications including anti virus, norton utilities, or other memory resident programs, Internet connection, etc. Also, if you have hardware devices that are currently connected via USB port like compact flash card reader, removable drives, what have you, unplug them all before running the program.

Also, be sure that DMA is enabled for IDE hard disks.
1) Control Panel: System: Hardware tab: Device Manager.
2) Click "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"
3) Double click on Primary IDE Channel: Advanced settings.
4) Be sure Current transfer mode is DMA. (Transfer mode should be DMA if available in default.)

Download the latest version of DirectX and other necessary updates from Microsoft:
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

MY PROBLEM NOW IS THIS:
Video captures fine to C:\\ drive (Primary) but audio and video capture is jumpy when captured to the D:\\ (storage) drive.
I have checked all settings and the drive function is normal.

Can anybody help with "jumpy audio and video capture to storage drive?"

thanks,