Hello,

I am having a bit of trouble with my video files using Snapz Pro X 2.1.1. I am recording 30-40 minute videos and after about 3 minutes the audio slowly goes out of sync.

I have looked all over this forum and the answer I found was that the CPU was being pushed too hard. However I am using a mac pro 2.66-Quad with 4 gigs of RAM. I used activity monitor and my processors or barley being used.

I have tried different codecs, I know it is said that it is off sync already in the RAW data but that helped a little with 30fps on MPEG-4 IMA4.1 @ 44khz. I turned smoothing off and have tested this in SOOO many variables of different codecs, fps, and length of recording.

I am recording a streamed movie. Just for the fun of it I tried it @ 12fps and that did make it a lot better, but it is CRUCIAL I capture this at 24-30 fps.

Is this a problem with snapz capturing this long of movies cause I don't see how it could be my computer.

Are you trying to record HD video? What kind of graphics card do you have?

Nope, its just a small 390x260 recording.

I have a ATI Radeon X1900XT w/ 512 VRAM.

A card that should be able to punch these things out like nothing.

I'm so lost...

Is it possible that my (mirrored) RAID setup is affecting Snapz?

I will boot from another drive and post an update

I THINK I found it!

I believe it was my RAID. Probably because it was attempting to write to both drives at the same time.

Maybe this is a bug in Snapz to fix? Maybe it is just too much strain to write to two drives at once, I don't know

I've heard of issues with other programs that try to write to RAID - could be an inherent limitation of the setup, I don't know. Could always email Ambrosia and ask them about it, unless an employee stumbles on this topci first.