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farss wrote on 6/15/2006, 3:26 PM
Do you have abort capture on dropped frames turned on?
Tom Chalmers wrote on 6/15/2006, 3:45 PM
yes i did and when i turned it off and started to capture it kept capturing but with a lot of dropped frames?
Yom
Lili wrote on 6/15/2006, 4:51 PM
If you captured all of your tape,
how long was the tape ?
- how many frames did it drop total?
and did they drop all throughout or just in certain spots where you may have switched off the camera and started it up again?

Sometimes I see that I have dropped frames, but they only occur at a point where I stopped and started the camera and don't affect the final footage at all?
Tom Chalmers wrote on 6/16/2006, 8:06 AM
i only let it go a few seconds and then i turned it off. it was dropping almost ervery frame. Also look at my info and see if i have filled it out correctly.
I have captured video after i got my new sticks with no problem.
Could i have hit something on the camera?
I will capture all of the video and let you know how it turns out.
Tom
Tom Chalmers wrote on 6/16/2006, 9:23 AM
i captured a couple of minutes and the dopped frames were coming off pretty equally through out. when i played it back the video was jumpy and the audio very scratchy.
Tom
John_Cline wrote on 6/16/2006, 10:29 AM
There is something going on with your system. I'd be looking into programs running in the background, like anti-virus software.

John
teaktart wrote on 6/16/2006, 10:45 AM
Hi,
Just a wild thought here as I once had the same kind of problems...

On a new computer I was trying to capture to my RAID drive and it just wouldn't do the job.... dropped frames, huge chunks of pixel data, sound = inaudible junk, etc. After trying out all the different firewire ports I had available it still wouldn't work right. I defragged, ran anti-spyware, and all the other 'housecleaning' tasks just in case...

Eventually, I ended up bringing my computer back to the builder and when they went into BIOS and disabled the firewire port built into my nVidia soundcard it finally worked correctly. I now use the firewire port on a PCI card and the conflict has been resolved. So this part was a hardware conflict issue.

I also learned that I could not capture HDV to my RAID...its configured to "stripe" (and make a copy of all my stuff) and somehow this just won't work without major dropouts. My solution is to capture to another drive and then "move" the data over to the RAID after capturing for my editing.

It took about a month to sort this all out, painfully long process, frustrating as hell, but once resolved I've been fine since.

Hope somewhere in here is a solution to your capture problems.

Good Luck,

Teaktart
johnmeyer wrote on 6/16/2006, 8:05 PM
You should never drop ANY frames. Zero is the only acceptable number. Here is a link to a dropped frame FAQ I wrote several years ago:

Dropped Frames VASST FAQ
Tom Chalmers wrote on 6/17/2006, 12:02 PM
Thank you john. I have just looked at your site and i am sure i can fix my problem with this info.
Cheers,
Tom