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A/V sync problems with new DC30 pro
I recently installed my newish (never used but left sitting in the box since April) Pinnacle Miro DC30 pro that is meant to replace the aging Marvel G200-TV I used to edit on. The Marvel card had been pulled out a few months back to be replaced with a G400 Vanilla 32MB card that I have been reasonably happy with. This past weekend I yanked my Sound Blaster Live Value out and finally popped in the DC30. After installing Premiere and the latest drivers I thought I would load up and play around with some Quicktime and AVI files I had sitting on my video drive.
My AVI wouldn't work at all (oops, forgot they were encoded with the Matrox codec). Then I got to my MOV files and that's where thing got screwy. When I played the files the Audio led the video by a good 1 to 2 seconds. Just to double check it wasn't a Premiere problem I shut it down and tried to play the files in Quicktime alone. The problem persisted. Just to see what would happen with non-video related audio I loaded up a game, Nocturne, to see how it performed. In the game the audio lagged behind associated actions by a second or two, where I had had no problem before with the SBLive card installed. I haven't tried a DVD yet to see if it has a similar problem, but I exspect there would be.
Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening? I didn't really expect good gaming with the DC30, but the Quicktime performance worries me. Now, I didn't reinstall Windows 98 after the install, which might have something to do with it. The problem with that is I plan on building a new, dedicated gaming system next month, reformating the current machine for dedicated video work, so I wanted to avoid reformating until then. Anyway, I will probably yank the DC30 out a put the Live back in for the moment unless I can solve the issue. Does anyone have any ideas on this? I'll be reconfiguring the system back to its old state Friday night if I can't figure out how to fix it.
Thanks ofr any ideas!
NotEd
My AVI wouldn't work at all (oops, forgot they were encoded with the Matrox codec). Then I got to my MOV files and that's where thing got screwy. When I played the files the Audio led the video by a good 1 to 2 seconds. Just to double check it wasn't a Premiere problem I shut it down and tried to play the files in Quicktime alone. The problem persisted. Just to see what would happen with non-video related audio I loaded up a game, Nocturne, to see how it performed. In the game the audio lagged behind associated actions by a second or two, where I had had no problem before with the SBLive card installed. I haven't tried a DVD yet to see if it has a similar problem, but I exspect there would be.
Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening? I didn't really expect good gaming with the DC30, but the Quicktime performance worries me. Now, I didn't reinstall Windows 98 after the install, which might have something to do with it. The problem with that is I plan on building a new, dedicated gaming system next month, reformating the current machine for dedicated video work, so I wanted to avoid reformating until then. Anyway, I will probably yank the DC30 out a put the Live back in for the moment unless I can solve the issue. Does anyone have any ideas on this? I'll be reconfiguring the system back to its old state Friday night if I can't figure out how to fix it.
Thanks ofr any ideas!
NotEd
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