10 Things to Try if you get "Disk too Slow"

[JimJulian]

We should put together a sticky given the overwhelming number of replies and views on the forum regarding "Disk too Slow" messages.

I have 12 or so editors using Edius and here are some of the suggestions I give them when this message occurs.

1. Don't overload the computers USB ports or Firewire with hard drives and other devices while digitizing.

2. Check Project Settings to make sure they match the source material.

3. Is the source material your digitizing all the same format, ie, framerate, pixel size, audio, etc

4. Make sure the hard drive is not less than 7200rpm and never fill it beyond 80%. And please no don't format Fat 32. Many LaCie drive default Fat 32.

5. I'm no expert on this one but you might have a bad power supply or not enough power.

6. Try rebooting computer, restarting software, or toggling between OCHI and HDV input settings.

7. Try a different USB or Firewire port.

8. Is it possible your computer is not fast enough to convert material on the fly that is being inputted as HQ?

9. Try digitizing to internal hard drive that is not the system drive.

10. Finally, "Close that Audio Window! Your ******* up resources!"

And yes these are just suggestions. Results may vary.
I'm sure I've missed a bunch. Please add your own.

jim

[pjsssss]

Nice post Jim. Thanks for the time and effort. I wish we could find a common cause from the people that do have this problem.

[THoff]

11. If you are trying to capture live 720P DVCProHD, set the camera to FREE RUN timecode instead of REC RUN. For some reason this works fine in 1080 but not in 720, where you will get the "DISK TOO SLOW" error unless you are using free-running timecode.

[JimJulian]

#12
Defrag, defrag, defrag!

[bashvideo]

thanks for this post ,

yesterday , and before i read this post , i have the same problem : disk too slow .

befor one week i was captureing very well . just yesterday i have 13 tape i need to capture , its 1440 X 1080 60i , i have 2 booting windows on my system , xp and vista ultimate . im working on vista .

when i have this problem yesterday , and before i read this post , i did all the 10 , but the problem also happened , also i make defrag and i have the same problem .

then i went to windows xp , and now im captureing the tape number 5 without problems . just one time windows crash .

thanks alot .

[JimJulian]

According to Brandon @ Grass Valley
"For all intents and purposes, "Disk too slow" really means "Something interrupted the capture process and we stopped before dropping a frame."

In Edius go to Settings, Application, Deck Settings. Be sure to check "Skip errors and continue capture"

[wael]

iis possibale in edius to export from time line to divx format direct?

[fukly]

hi...i have used 2 sata drive for edius 4.51c
then in one lazy week i have time to format my 500gig drive.. n suddenly the disk drive too slow just appear everytime i tried to capture to it..
so weird!...for 1,5 years the same hardware n software without interruption.
now suddenly,blink-blink! i've joined the "disk to slow" club...aarrgh!

[antonsvideo]

you formatted the disk to what? NTFS or FAT?

if NTFS (correct), what cluster size?

[David Ice]

Now I'm getting error messages at the end of capture that says "Disk Too Slow"--but--when I check the hard drive, all the files are there, correct, and just fine. It's just that Edius does not seem to realize they were captured fine, and when you click the OK button for the "Disk Too Slow" button, the files do not automatically import. It has to be done manually. Any idea whazzup?