Not sure what the problem is with Vegas Moviestudio - but my last extraction from my Canon Optura 40 over firewire gave me 400+ dropped frames over the span of about 23 minutes of video. I am saving the video to a different physical hard drive than where Vegas and my OS are installed and I have Norton AV disabled during the transfer. Movie Studio is also updated with the latest patch.
DMA is active on both hard drives.
My system specs are as follows:
ABIT KV8-Max3 Motherboard (22 bios as 23 was unstable with my hardware configuration), 2 - 512mb sticks of Corsair XMS DDR400 low latency ram, AMD 64 3400+ socket 754 cpu, 2 - Seagate 7200rpm 120gb SATA hard drives with 8mb buffer, Nvidia 6800GT 256mb agp 8x video card, SB Audigy 2 pci sound card, D-Link pci 10/100 NIC, onboard Firewire, Sony DVD Rom (ide), Plextor Dual Layer 8x DVD burner with 8mb buffer (ide), Canon iP6000D usb photo printer, Canon S-50 Powershot digital camera, Canon Optura 40 mini-dv camcorder.
My Windows XP professional is fully updated and service pack 2 - installed on c: drive (along with Vegas) - my folder for saving videos is on my f: drive (different physical drive than c: ). With the exception of the motherboard bios - every single hardware item is running with current drivers and all my partitions are defragged regulary. I run Norton AV and keep it up to date and also run Microsofts spyware - as well as run Adaware and Spybot regularly. There are no IRQ sharing conflicts and my firewire is on a seperate IRQ from everything else. I have also tried Microsoft's firewire patch as well.
Oddly enough - I fired up Pinnacle Studio 9 and it captured everything with zero dropped frames - which tells me this is a Sony Vegas issue and not so much a SP2 issue (I've already searched the Sony forums for other folks with dropped frames issues and have seen the threads regarding sp2). I've also captured the same tape with WinDV with no dropped frames.
Maybe I'm missing something in setting up Vegas?
Can anyone help?
DMA is active on both hard drives.
My system specs are as follows:
ABIT KV8-Max3 Motherboard (22 bios as 23 was unstable with my hardware configuration), 2 - 512mb sticks of Corsair XMS DDR400 low latency ram, AMD 64 3400+ socket 754 cpu, 2 - Seagate 7200rpm 120gb SATA hard drives with 8mb buffer, Nvidia 6800GT 256mb agp 8x video card, SB Audigy 2 pci sound card, D-Link pci 10/100 NIC, onboard Firewire, Sony DVD Rom (ide), Plextor Dual Layer 8x DVD burner with 8mb buffer (ide), Canon iP6000D usb photo printer, Canon S-50 Powershot digital camera, Canon Optura 40 mini-dv camcorder.
My Windows XP professional is fully updated and service pack 2 - installed on c: drive (along with Vegas) - my folder for saving videos is on my f: drive (different physical drive than c: ). With the exception of the motherboard bios - every single hardware item is running with current drivers and all my partitions are defragged regulary. I run Norton AV and keep it up to date and also run Microsofts spyware - as well as run Adaware and Spybot regularly. There are no IRQ sharing conflicts and my firewire is on a seperate IRQ from everything else. I have also tried Microsoft's firewire patch as well.
Oddly enough - I fired up Pinnacle Studio 9 and it captured everything with zero dropped frames - which tells me this is a Sony Vegas issue and not so much a SP2 issue (I've already searched the Sony forums for other folks with dropped frames issues and have seen the threads regarding sp2). I've also captured the same tape with WinDV with no dropped frames.
Maybe I'm missing something in setting up Vegas?
Can anyone help?