My computer takes longer to start up after installing the Pinnacle USB box.Įvery digital capture program is affected, each one dropping hundreds of frames.Ĭlick-to-DVD is extremely slow, and doesn't make DVD's any more.
I unplugged the Pinnacle USB box, and returned it, becauseīut the damage it did to my computer has not gone away yet, and it has been a month and a half. I used the computers IEEE 1394 port, not the USB box, because it was malfunctioning.Īs soon as I start capturing digital video with Adobe Premiere, it starts dropping frames every second - in a few minutes, I have dropped hundreds of frames, resulting in unusable, garbled footage. I decided to use Adobe Premiere LE to capture some footage because I spelled a name wrong on a recent DVD I made. Every time I tried to capture, I never ever made it to the capture screen again, it would just shut down as soon as I tapped the capture button. When I finally got it stable after two days, from then on, when I tried to capture, the second I hit the "capture" button in Studio 10, the program immediately went away. I had to unplug the computer and plug it back in, at which point it went haywire, asking for the boot disk, and windows opening and closing at random. I clicked "capture" and was taken to the capture screen, where I started to capture some analog video, and it was working for about 10 minutes, and then the blue screen of death appeared.
I had to turn the computer off and try again, and this time everything loaded up properly, three CD's/DVD's worth ofĭigital and analog capture software, Pinnacle Studio 10, and a DVD writing program. The Pinnacle program started to load up, but froze up during the first try.
I followed the instructions properly, loading and installing all the Pinnacle hardware and software in their proper order.
So I purchased Pinnacle Studio Plus 700-USB version 10 to capture analog video in DV-AVI format to edit. GigaPocket could capture analog video perfectly, and I could make DVD's using Click-to-DVD, but I couldn't import the files intoĪdobe Premiere LE to edit them and put titles and such. I could make DVD's in Click-to-DVD with no problems. Of footage digitized - I could record the entire MiniDV tape with not one dropped frame. I've been using Adobe Premiere to capture MiniDV footage for three years, with zero dropped frames in any length
The programs that came with the computer were Adobe Premiere LE, Click-to-DVD, GigaPocket recorder, Movie Shaker, and DVGate. My Firewire connection is a NEC OHCI Complaint IEEE 1394 Host Controller. Video card is an NVidia 64 MB GeForce4 MX 440 (Sony). The operating system is Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2. It had 512 MB of DDR DRAM RAM,īut after the disaster, I added another 512 MB RAM chip, which didn't help the capture problem at all. It has a 2.53 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor.