Just got my new Workprinter up and running

[tmoceri]

I did the philosophical "To Raid or Not to Raid". Read some of John M. posts over at the Vegas Video forum (awesome info, thanks john!!!). Tried w/o Raid. Seemed to work ok (go a few streaked frames from time to time).

But then I got to thinking, having just spent $1300 on a WP-XP plus various other items to aid the capture process... stopping short of a Raid setup for such nominal $ seemed kind of silly.

I purchased a rock solid Raid card off eBay for $25 w/shipping (there are others of various bells and whistle for various prices) and 2 60 gig 7200rpm drives (specials and coupons at local Staples, needed those either way).

Took about 20 minutes to setup in WinXP. Done.

WorkPrinterXP, works great in Dodcap, SCLive, Preimere. No adjustsments or fiddling needed.

Would it have worked without a raid with various sw/hw tweaks. Sure. But I just ran a 48 minute capture with Dodcap (21644 frames) last night without one bad frame! Well, I was a little obsessed so I spent 40 minute looking at frames (man my eyes are killing me .

In my case I'm doing it for personal an business so I could justify it.

-Tom

[burchis]

Any comment which configuration would be best. I have a motherboard that offers IEEE port to import my DV, or should I install a PCI IEEE add-on card to filter my DV into. I am concerned about processor overhead and stability of using the onboard port.

I have adjusted my Workprinter-XP timing cam to eliminate vertical blur but I am getting horizontal bluring, looks like venetian blinds. Anyone else have this sort of frame distortion? It's not with every frame but too many to continue until rectified.