David Fleming
October 12th, 2006, 09:44 PM
I recently purchased a used XL1 and have discovered an interesting issue when transferring video to the computer. For some reason during the capture process frames are dropped between the camera and computer. To troubleshoot this I did the following.
1. Watch frame counter in XL1 viewfinder during capture and it seems to count every frame even though capture program drops frames.
2. Tried capturing in two different applications with the same results of dropped frames.
3. Played back the tape recorded with my XL1 on my Sony PC101 handheld camcorder with no dropped frames and captured that footage to the computer with no difficulty. I was able to capture the video shot on the XL1 including all four tracks of audio to the computer as long as I use the PC101 as the playback deck and not the XL1.
At this point I consider this an inconvenience because I should have my PC101 with my anytime I play to capture video, but I would like any thoughts on resolving this issue. I am getting video from the firewire port on the XL1 and I can control the deck from the PC so I know I am connected.
Thanks,
1. Watch frame counter in XL1 viewfinder during capture and it seems to count every frame even though capture program drops frames.
2. Tried capturing in two different applications with the same results of dropped frames.
3. Played back the tape recorded with my XL1 on my Sony PC101 handheld camcorder with no dropped frames and captured that footage to the computer with no difficulty. I was able to capture the video shot on the XL1 including all four tracks of audio to the computer as long as I use the PC101 as the playback deck and not the XL1.
At this point I consider this an inconvenience because I should have my PC101 with my anytime I play to capture video, but I would like any thoughts on resolving this issue. I am getting video from the firewire port on the XL1 and I can control the deck from the PC so I know I am connected.
Thanks,