Aspect Hd is dropping frames :-(
 

I just bought Aspect HD and I'm already having trouble with it. Whenever I capture footage from my Canon Xh-A1 there's LOADS of dropped frames. I have tried capturing without aspect HD and there are absolutely no frames dropped. I have an AMD dual 64 with 2gb ram, 3 separate 7200rpm HDs. I should not be having this type of issues. Can anyone help?

thanks

Are you try to capture via an HDSDI/HDMI input device, if so your PC is not fast enough. If you are capturing via firewire, you can't drop frames. So I don't understand. Please file a trouble ticket.

No, I'm trying to capture via firewire. Do I need a specific plugin for the Xh-A1 PAL progressive scan???

Nothing custom is needed. We don't even report dropped frames as none can be dropped, short of capturing with a Pentium 3. So please file a trouble ticket so support can determine what is happening.

When I open a new project for footage shot with the Canon Xh-A1 PAL using 25F should I chose 1080i or 1080p? Or is there a special project?

1440x1080p25 is the mode of that camera.

Got, David! Somehow the "de-interlace" option was ticked the entire time. I have tried again and things are as sweet as they get :D

Great news, thanks for the update.

I spoke too soon :-( I keep getting the dropped frames. Look how bad it is:

- http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/8309/1189405819.jpg
- http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/8309/1189405798.jpg
- http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/8309/1189405772.jpg
- http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/8309/1189405732.jpg

OK, that is not a dropped frame in the traditional sense, that is MPEG glitching, likely due to packet loss. To see if you Firewire port is faulty, use HDLink to capture a tape in M2T mode, and then convert the M2T files to AVIs in a second pass. If that works fine, it could be that your Firewire card is dropping packets when the PC is working hard (and it shouldn't.) Getting another Firewire card is an inexpensive upgrade.

Hello,
i use Aspect HD 5.1 and HDlink to capture HDV (footage 1080/50i) from my Canon XH-A1 Pal, directly to .avi with scene detection on (works perfectly).
it works very fine and i have never seen this.
my config is P4 2.8Ghz and 1.5Go RAM.

Cedric.

I'm using a Dual-core Athlon X2. I should not be experiencing this. Before I bought the software I had used the trial like 3 or 4 times until it expired and this had never happened before. I don't understand why all of the sudden the bandwidth stopped being enough.

Try another Firewire card or port -- it is seeming fakey.

Will do. I'm going to buy a new card to see how it goes. I really hope it's the firewire card. Tomorrow is a holiday in Spain, so I'll only be able to buy a new one on Wednesday. Please don't close the ticket until I can make sure it's the firewire.

David, do you think I can get much more benefit from a firewire 800? I'm thinking about going with one of these.