MovieFactory freezes

kagatak · Post by **kagatak** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 7:09 pm

Hello,

I need a help.
I have purchsed Terratec Cameo Grabster 200 and installed it with MovieFactory 3. Over all it looks fine. I can see preview and capture video. However it freezes often when I replay or edit chapters. Besides sometimes it showes error during capturing saying the captured file is corrupt. I have already downloaded and installed patches for MovieFactory but no lack. My PC has AMD Duron 800MHz, 384Mb memory and 50Gb free space.
The PC is not enough powerful?
Please give me some hits for solution.

Regards,
K. Kagata

shspvr · Post by **shspvr** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:19 pm

What you got is Software AVI capture device and I'm beat anything like all other AVI capture it dropping a lot of frames which can cuase corrupt file.
If want keep your system all really need Hardware MPEG-2 encoder like WinTV-PVR 150 or 250.

Wagz · Post by **Wagz** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:51 pm

I'm a novice to the video editing myself, but looking at your processor, man, that's pretty slow. I always hear about video editing suites gobbling up huge processor/RAM amounts, you may very well have to upgrade the machine to accommodate. Keep that in mind as an option, not gospel. Some of the more experienced peeps here might have a workaround.

htchien · Post by **htchien** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 4:30 am

For capturing, suggest to use Intel Pentium 4 2G/AMD Athlon XP 2G or higher to avoid drop frame problems and freezing.

Hope this helps.

H.T.

kagatak · Post by **kagatak** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 6:17 am

Hello guys,

Thank you for the reply.
This was my first attempt to play with video editting so I did not have enough knowledge.
I will try to upgrade my PC.

Thanks again.

KK

shspvr · Post by **shspvr** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 5:43 pm

The video editing software I used dosen't need major hosepower in fact if I where do a Comparison Differences from 600MHz P3 vs 2.8GHz P4 it should come out very close to being the some when using Womble Multimedia MPEG-VCR becuase when editing MPEG files there all ready per-encoding it only need be frame-accurate for copy the out a new file so there for the key thing is drive speed and dual harddrive is the way to go but if you where plan for special effect then yes you do need a bit more hosepower if was plan for Womble MPEG Video Wizard which very cool package and both list above there no re-encoding or re-render of MPEG files but with special effect there is some render but it still faster then any other video package I scaen today.
Keep in mind kagatak that avoid drop frame problems and freezing by upgrade your PC may not alway help sovle your problem.

This all I have for editing and capture plus it server as my PVR box and media sever for MP3, Picture, TV Show Recording, etc, etc.
Intel P3 600MHz
Soyo BX motherboard
"2" PC100 256MB stick
WinTV-PVR 500MCE (Was a pair of PVR 250)
ATI Rage Pro 4MB
"1" 160GB
"2" 250GB
REALtek NIC 8139C
DVDrom
Windows 2000 Pro
SageTV
SageTV Recorder
Womble Multimedia MPEG-VCR
Yes that rigth there is no sound card what so ever after I don't need with PVR 500MCE as matter fact even if I was to use 150, 250 USB2 or even PVR 350 you still don't need sound card.
But I'm get ready to move everthing over to my old 1.6GHz box before I build up a new 2.8GHz just for games like Doom3, Unreal, HL2, etc so for now my main new system has.
Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2 SE
DVD Shrink 3.2
Pioneer DVR-A08XL Dual Layer DVD Burner
The main reason for this is becuase both MovieFactory need abit more hosepower for render DVD menu and I'm not sure what DVD Shrink dose but a fast CPU dose make a world of differences vs my old 1.6GHz CPU.