DV out whilst editing in MSP 6.x

[Rob100]

Hi,

Okay, I've tried this with both MSP 6.0 (with DVII patch) and with MSP 6.5 and the result is the same with both.

The system I am trying this on is a 1.4ghz TBird with 768mb ram, lots of HD space, using ATI DV wonder and Panasonic MX300B.

With Premiere I get the source window, the preview window and the timeline instantly showing on the camcorder and on the PC simutaneously - it couldn't work better.

With MSP 6.x I find it takes an age (well about 3-5 seconds) for the timeline to appear on the camcorder when scrubbing or when previewing and it refuses to show via the DV out when using the source window. Also when previewing the PC's preview window is frozen.

Is this the way it's meant to be?? Surely not...

Anyone got any ideas?

Rob.

[wkulecz]

Yes unfortunately. For some reason Ulead chose to use the WDM output model for the source window and VfW for the preview.

Can't explain the lags when 1394 output device is connected, but I see these two on all systems I've used MSP on from 6.0ve thru 6.5. Apparently the blanking of the preview window is by design.

Supposed to be fixed it v7. we'll see. Unfortunately the preview behavior of Premiere6 is the only thing I really like about it so I've stuck with MSP6.5

--wally.

[Rob100]

Well, maybe I'm in the minority here but I like Premiere 6. I don't seem to have problems with it like many ppl claim to.

Maybe the lag is better when using a TI chipset firewire card? I don't have one (both the DV Wonder and another card I have here use the Agere chipset).

Rob.

[wkulecz]

No, the lag is annoying with TI 1394 cards too.

I don't have any problem with Premiere6, I just find it too slow despite the nice preview features, so I rarely use it.

Premiere5 was crash-o-matic.

Premiere4 got me started, way before things were close to ready, it seemed to work OK but had serious limits, given it was a windows 3.1 program, it was really only useful for short AVI clips. MSP seems to have been built modeling the Premiere4 user interface so I found it very easy to get used to.

--wally.