Another stupid capturing problem...

MCS13319 wrote on 3/31/2004, 5:07 PM

I recently purchased Vegas 4.0e andinstalled it onto my computer, totally replacing my old 3.0. With 3.0, I set the capture preferences to save the clips to a completely separate 80G hard drive used only for media storage and found that I had no dropped frames or problems of any kind. Since installing Vegas 4.0, I drop frames like a madman and the only way to avoid this is to set the preferences tab to save captured clips to my much smaller 20G hard drive which is not what I want to do at all because it eats up valuable space. I tried rerouting the path to D: drive but the dropped frames problem continues. Is there any way around this other than buying a new capture card?

Comments

Flack wrote on 3/31/2004, 7:31 PM

Don't use the capture app in Vegas try another app, I use ScenalyzerLive and it works great with Vegas.

Flack..

Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 4/1/2004, 3:44 AM

I will second that, works great, and saves as it goes along.

I recently captured a 2.4 hour play and all seamed well in V egas capture, it showed the 4 clips, I pressed OK and an error appeared and no bloody clips int he bin, so I rapidly change to a different capture program.

jetdv wrote on 4/1/2004, 6:20 AM

1) How is the drive connected (internal? external? firewire? ide?...)
2) What else have you changed on the system?
3) Make sure DMA is active on that hard drive.

johnmeyer wrote on 4/1/2004, 12:57 PM

I agree with jetdv. DMA is the first thing I would check. It absolutely has to be enabled to capture without dropping frames. If you captured with prevsiou versions, you must have been "right on the edge." Given the additional previewing, etc. that V4 does, you need the DMA. It makes a HUGE difference.