Steven, you were right all along.

My "new" PC seems to be having problems feeding HDV video files off its RAID system. Weird, since I'm getting at least 65Mb/s sustained data read test results.

When I moved the whole project and its files off the RAID and onto another regular IDE drive, tada - PPro no longer quits, nor does it produce any errors. Go figure. I guess something isn't kosher in my "new, fast" PC's SCSI/RAID setup.

I now think that my problems with CAPTURE via HDLink on new PC were of the same exact nature. I don't have time to test-capture on IDE drive, but I'm 80% positive this will work fine.

So it's not a memory/processor problem per se, after all.

Thanks to Steven and everyone who helped!

Glad to help steer you in the right direction. I just want everyone to have as much fun with HDV as I am having.

What I don't like with my FX1 - The Viewfinder seems to show a sligthly smaller picture than the final record which can be a nuisance.

Richard

#1 issue with a misbahaving scsi raid is shared resources/PCI bandwidth. If you have a 64bit raid card in a 32bit slot, or your graphic's card/capture card is sharing resources with the array, etc.,etc.

Most folks run a disk speed test, getting good results, not realizing that the raid appears to be correct because it's the only thing running at the time of the test, as the test is done internally. Such a test only indicates that the raid is communicating properly with the disks. What you are experiencing is how the raid is working when other hardware/software is also hogging resources.

Pete

Richard,

Use a monitor, CRT (no flat panel), and even if it isn't HD, NTSC SD is better than nothing.

heath

I have to admit that I am switching to manual focus more often with my fx1 than I do with my vx2000. But nothing compares to the autofocus problems I have encountered with the XL1's I have used - they are really touchy. Overall it is fine, but low light does create focus problems quickly and the fx1 is not good in low light compared to the vx2000 and this could be a problem for some event or wedding situations that will not allow additional lighting.

No capture problems for me yet in Vegas or Premiere.
I am worried about the 384K compressed orginal audio however, and it seems ashame that my vx2000 records better audio than the fx1.

I shot two one hour shows twice with two cameras my FX-1 and a rented ZU-1, since it was a one man gig, I had to use autofocus. Much to my surprise the autofocus did a fantastic job - it misses occasionally, but it´s very reliable indeed.
In 8 hrs of footage, I estimate 4 minutes was out of focus, no problem working around it in post.

Alex, you seem to have found the problem, but when you listed your specs you stated 400fsb. Did you mean to say 800fsb? I am asking because I had a friend running his 3gig p4 at 1.5gig for months and never noticed.