Dan Mayer's Blog

I don't understand what is wrong with the digital video world. I mean i had a 700mhz 512 mb machine that would never ever drop a frame on my older JVC camcorder. That camcorder broke and after months of sending it off for repairs i finally got the company to replace it with a new camera since it was still under warranty. So now i have a brand new sony miniDV camera. I figured my problems would be over. It had both firewire and usb 2.0. So what could possibly go wrong. Well My version of Adobe Premiere doesn't synch using the USB 2 so i used good old firewire. Now while my camera was broken and being repaired and broke i finally bought a new pc. It is a 2.2 ghz machine. This should scream on digital video compared to my old machine right? Well wrong... maybe when i get to the point of editing. I can't seem to record more than 30 or forty seconds of video now without dropping frames. I am loosing them all over. Now this makes no sense everything i have is now faster and better. What is going wrong. Who knows... I can record in another program with usb 2 without dropping frames but it only records at 640 by 480 while my other programs recorded at 720 by 480... So i am trying to figure out how to finish a video i started editing over a year ago when all the video stuff and formats are changing. This is just unexceptable. I have all new equiptment but i am getting worse results than i was a year ago. So come on companies... Show me some progress... Show me how much easier it is to record and capture video. Show me how much simpler it has gotten.... Grrr should i just start all over editing it on the new recording format and with a new editor. I swear every time i start a movie project i need a new editor because the one i had used a few months ago is out of date and doesn't support the features i want. Screw digita video i am going to go play on a skateboard... Something that hasn't change much for like 10 years.