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from James David Walley (jwalley@eskimo.com)
I can't say my experience has been too good, either. I suspect it is not the card itself, but the software that is the problem.

I captured and assembeld a 13 minute long video, using QuickTime Pro. I then tried to use the Radius DVPlayer to send it to my camcorder. Every time I tried, I got dropped frames, which the program informed me were _not_ due to a too-slow drive, but to "late interrupts." It then told me to check the manual for fixes. Sorry, but there is _nothing_ in the manual for that, only for slow drives.

However, much, much worse is that it took me about seven or eight tries to get the video dumped out to camcorder, even with dropped frames. Most of the time, the video would play for about ten minutes, then the computer would crash. And when I say "crash," I mean it -- you'd be watching the video play on the camcorder, and the next thing you knew, the computer monitor would be displaying the BIOS boot-up screen and the camcorder would freeze. In other words, not even a crash where you would get any information on what was going wrong. It was like the computer had been turned off and on again. The most frustrating time was when this happened with less than one minute to go in the video! Now, if it is this hard to get a simple 13-minute video to record without crashing the system (even without worrying about the dropped-frame problem), can you imagine the fun trying to record a fully-edited 80-minute feature? AARRGGGHHHH!!!!!

(posted 9038 days ago)

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