Priemiere slows during capture

[Patrick]

Hello, I've got a problem that maybe someonecan help me out with.

Everytime I try to capture, things seem fine for a few seconds. Then after those few seconds, the video in the capture window gets choppy, the sound gets all high pitched on me, but the sound turns slow motion as well. You can see the timecode stuttering (i don't know of a better way to describe that part)
It will not let me capture the video. When I click the "record" button, a message box, with the name of the box being "Recorder Error" pops up and says "Lost Connection to Device" When I click "OK" it goes away but then at the top of the capture window, it now says "Capture Device Offline"

Anybody know what's going on?

I've tried changing settings, nothing seems to work. I've captured lots of things before, this is the first time this has happened. A friend said that maybe the last thing I captured could've changed some settings. What do you all think? The last thing I captured was footage from a Panasonic DVX 100B. The footage that I am now trying to capture is from a Canon GL1. I don't know if that matters, but there you go.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[StephenDurden]

I don't think it's about the camera, it's something about the firewire port. Try to capture the footage with another camera: if you get the same message, it means that your firewire card doesn't work fine (which can be really bad, trust me... I had a 600 € damage on my Canon because of that).

 

[Patrick]

thanks for the suggestion, but i tried capturing through another editing software (avid freeDV) and that worked just fine, so i believe the firewire is fine.

any other ideas on what it can be?

 

[Patrick]

Oh and another thing that I noticed,

you know that sound when you connect the firewire to the computer and then turn the camera on or off? That little "dunt-dunt". Well, when I disconnected it, the sound happened, normal right? But then about a minute later, it did it again, and this is when nothing is even connected at all.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like my computer somehow read the firewire twice. Yet I do the alt+ctrl+delete thing and check the cpu usage and it is perfectly normal.

So now I'm just, HUH!?!?

 

[StephenDurden]

Sounds like a problem with Premiere's drivers... I don't know. Have you tried to uninstall it and re-install it back?

 

[Filmosity]

what speed is the hard drive you're capturing to (in RPM)? And are you capturing to an external drive? Those two items could be causing problems.

 

[StephenDurden]

what speed is the hard drive you're capturing to (in RPM)? And are you capturing to an external drive? Those two items could be causing problems.

Well, he tried capturing with Avid FreeDV so... I guess it's just Premiere.