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Old 2006-03-04, 03:33 PM
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Re: Dropped Frames

Well I just built a brand new PC for doing just audio/video stuff. It has a 75 gig hard drive w/ 65 gigs of free space. I also tried on my other older PC (117 gig), but I get the same results. For example...I tried capturing a Hi8 tape thats 69 minutes long. It drops about 32 frames in the beginning. Then it will drop 32 frames a couple more times before the capture is finished. But of course it sucks when I play it back, because it will kinda skip where the frames were dropped. When surfing the web for answers, people seem to rave about using WinDV because it has a built-in memory buffer to prevent frame dropping. But it still drops them. I have my DMA enabled, my "indexing for fast file searching" turned off. All that stuff they say makes capturing smoother. I've also read that using an external Firewire hard drive helps too, but I haven't tried that yet because I don't have one. Could it possibly be my DV converter? I just don't know.

Thanks for the help outpost.
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