Elaine Montoya wrote:

There are a lot of variables - but in general, capturing does require 
processing power - and more so - memory.

Here are some thoughts....

- how much ram is on the machine? that is actually more important 
with video than processor speed
- when doing video work, I would never think of doing another task on 
the computer while capturing video. If you loose frames in the 
process, and your setting are set to stop capture on lost frames, it 
will stop capturing - which sounds exactly like what Richard is 
experiencing. If you changes your settings to not stop capturing on 
dropped frames, you will have poor video
- for the screen saver to come on, it also leads me to believe that 
he is trying to capture large segments at a time. While this is 
possible, it actually isn't 'standard procedure' when you are 
editing. You will usually view your dailies through a deck, document 
the time codes of the takes you want to capture, then go back and 
capture only those segments. I do know many people when starting in 
video tend to think it is easier to just capture everything - and 
then cut out what you don't need, but in the long run, it is more 
time consuming. (p.s. - turn your screen saver off...)
- when editing professionally, companies will purchase a dedicated 
workstation to ONLY run Premiere Pro (or Final Cut Pro) on - to make 
sure nothing else interferes with the performance of the video 
editing software.

So, no - I wouldn't say video capture on Windows is 'still that 
brittle' - the same would most likely be experienced on a Mac as 
well. It is the technique behind capturing video that usually causes 
problems.

elaine

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On Jul 23, 2007, at 7:46 AM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski - AUG - General wrote:

> Nicholas Kwiatkowski wrote:
>
> I was wondering if anybody who has had a chance to play with 
> Premiere CS3 yet could give some insite into this...
>
> -Nick Kwiatkowski
>
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> Richard Wiggins [[log in to unmask]] said....
>
> This weekend I've experimented a bit with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. 
> It doesn't seem very robust during the capture phase.  If I simply 
> switch to another window, it halts the capture.  This is on a 2 
> gigahertz Core Duo computer.
>
> I even tried goosing the priority for Premiere in Task Manager to 
> Realtime.
> Same effect: dare to leave the Premiere window, and I will halt 
> capture.
>
> It also stopped capturing when my screen saver kicked in at 10 
> minutes.
>
> It's been a few years since I've fiddled with digital video.  I 
> would've thought by now you could nav to another window and surf 
> the Web.  Is video capture on Windows really still that brittle? 
> Or is this Premiere wanting all the cycles?
>
> /rich
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