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Stiffler wrote on 10/15/2003, 12:52 AM
Welcome to the forum!

Some of the things to start with is making sure you have all background programs stopped. This may include anti-virus, and any other programs that use up your system resources.

Running 'disk defragmenter' before you capture is also a good idea.

Just some things to start with... and there are others here that can add more to it. In the mean time, what hardware do you have in your Sony computer? I'm assuming you are capturing DV with your camera?

Jon




Stiffler wrote on 10/15/2003, 1:06 AM
By the way...I was once an unhappy VideoWave user (also known here as the Dark Side). Then I found VideoFactory (now Screenblast), and I've never been happier. I'm now using Vegas Video (a big brother to Screenblast).

I'm sure you are going to love it here, and your Screenblast software!

JohnnyRoy wrote on 10/15/2003, 5:54 AM
> What factors effect frames being dropped?

Frames are dropped when your computer can’t keep up with the stream of data being sent over your capture device. This can be caused either by your hard drive not being able to keep up or other processes causing the computer to pause the capture to do something else and thus dropping frames while it wasn’t paying attention.

Look in the Help file in the Introduction section under Optimizing Your System and make sure you’ve done everything they suggest there. Especially having a fixed swap file and separate capture drive if possible. It seems odd that VideoWave capture did not drop frames but MovieStudio does. Perhaps your hard drive is getting fuller now and its harder for the computer to find places to put data and while its looking for a new spot, its dropping frames. This is why Stiffler suggested you defrag your disk to get all your free space contiguous.

The next would be to look at what might be interrupting the capture. Having a fixed swap file will keep your computer from reallocating swap space in the middle of a capture, which will drop frames. Again as Stiffler suggested, antivirus will often do this. Any program that polls the USB devices looking to see if you’ve inserted multi-media cards might cause a brief pause. Anything running in the background that wakes up periodically to do something may be the cause of dropped frames. You might want to get a utility like EndItAll2 to shutdown any unessential processes before capture.

Does VideoWave still capture fine and MovieStudio doesn’t or do they both drop frames now? If VideoWave can still capture fine, then maybe it isn’t your PC. Both should either work fine or both should drop frames if it’s something on your PC that’s causing it.

~jr