Capturing DV in Vista

athomasl wrote on 2/3/2008, 3:53 PM

I'm having trouble capturing standard DV on my new HP Pavilion computer with Vista. I'm capturing to an empty secondary internal 300gb hard drive which seems to spin down if the disk is not touched for 10 seconds. My power management is set to high performance so the hard drive shouldn't be going to sleep. Should I disable write caching? Run some kind of program to force the platter to keep spinning?

I didn't seem to have any problems capturing HD earlier, but those clips probably kept the drive more active.

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Kennymusicman wrote on 2/3/2008, 4:30 PM

not quite. Even in high performance- vista powers down the HDD.

Go to power options,
" change advanced power settings"

in pop-up - look for Hard disk -> turn off hard disk after (you can work it out :) )

But if you're capturing to it - it still should not power down unless you have a fair amount of ram - mine buffers a lot to ram (U have 8gb) and transfers in a bigger dump to reduce read/writes.

Hope that is of some use..

athomasl wrote on 2/3/2008, 5:24 PM

My apologies. We thought we were capturing to the secondary drive, but it was actually going to the OS disk. That wasn't usually a huge problem on XP, but one of the mysterious Vista processes was touching my second hard drive every few minutes, causing it to spin up and dragging the machine to a halt for a second or two, disrupting the video import. I turned off Indexing on the drives and redirected capture to the second drive and it seems better now.