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MSmart wrote on 10/20/2009, 4:07 PM
You're using the Firewire connection, right? If so, nothing to set. Are you capturing to an internal or external hard drive? Have you captured other tapes with this cam without dropped frames? Might be a dirty head and you need to run a cleaning tape.

More information needed.

Added: welcome to the forum, btw.
Himanshu wrote on 10/22/2009, 6:33 PM
If you run a search on this and the Vegas Pro forum for 'dropped frames' you'll probably find lots of advice.

In general - make sure you have plenty of free space on the disk you are capturing. Capture to an internal disk if possible. Turn off all non-essential applications while capturing.
Chienworks wrote on 10/22/2009, 7:08 PM
Hi8 is unlikely to have a firewire port since it's an analog format. Usually only the D8 camcorders have firewire.
MSmart wrote on 10/22/2009, 10:44 PM
It is a D8, the OP misspoke.
ACCEN wrote on 11/14/2009, 2:47 PM
WHEN I DOWNLOAD VIDEO FROM MY JVC 550 TO SONY VEGAS
MOVIE STUDIO 6, I GET DROPPED FRAMES WITH A LITTLE SOUND LIKE A 'TIC TIC'. WHAT CAN I DO AT RESPECT.?
HaroldC wrote on 12/16/2009, 3:50 PM
I've always gotten a lot of dropped frames when capturing with Vegas. Have you tried using Windows Movie Maker?
richard-amirault wrote on 12/16/2009, 7:42 PM
I have a computer that worked just fine .. until one day .. it didn't. When before I could capture perfectly well .. now it is impossible ie. more than 50% frame loss.

I could never figure out what happened.

I ended up capturing with Windows Movie Maker (which worked just fine) and editing in Vegas. The only "downside" is that there is no scene detection in WMM .. but 98% of what I do is all one continuous take.
Eigentor wrote on 12/17/2009, 5:26 AM
How do you know if you drop a frame:?

Does the play just seem choppy/jumpy or is there some way to look at the clip on the timeline and determine that a frame was dropped?
HaroldC wrote on 12/17/2009, 2:13 PM
The vid capture in VMS and I assume the other versions state whether there are dropped frames. Dropped frames are gray when opened in a timeline.
richard-amirault wrote on 12/17/2009, 7:40 PM
How do you know if you drop a frame:?

When vegas captures video it will show you a running count of how many frames are missed in real time, during the capture. When the capture finishes the total dropped frame count is still visible until you exit the mode.
Eigentor wrote on 12/18/2009, 5:06 AM
So I wouldn't know this unless I captured with VMS?

I capture using Haupauge device to .mpg and import into VMS.
richard-amirault wrote on 12/18/2009, 5:48 PM
Well I don't know about the Haupage.

As far as importing a file with dropped frames into Vegas ... from my limited experience I think that there is a "jump" where the missed frame should have been. No blank frame. No dark frame.

If it should have been: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP

It now would be: ABCFGHLMNOP
Chienworks wrote on 12/18/2009, 7:22 PM
It depends on the capture method and the ideology of the programmers.

DV captures tend to repeat the previous frame when there's a dropped frame.

Analog to AVI capture card software tends to skip over the drop.

Some MPEG capture systems end up with the remaining frames of the GOP being scrambled.