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MSmart wrote on 3/5/2007, 11:28 PM
Are you capturing via firewire? If so, check THIS thread out.
Action wrote on 3/6/2007, 4:29 PM
Have you disabled your anti-virus programs and performed a defrag on all the drives?
Kevin Mc wrote on 3/6/2007, 5:41 PM
You might also see if there's an option to disable the preview window on the computer monitor during capture - and/or keep the preview window very very very small. This seems to help on VMS7. I was getting dropped frames till I shrunk and disabled the capture preview. (edit) also - i found that messing with the capture window during a capture can cause lost frames. start capturing and don't touch anything =)
edatwilm wrote on 3/7/2007, 11:08 AM
Thanks to ITvideo,Action, and MSmart. I will check these out and report back later.
HaroldC wrote on 3/7/2007, 3:07 PM
That has also been my experience. If I'm going to capture with VMS, then that is all I will do while capturing. This computer isn't dedicated to video work. Because it has a full time connection to the internet I'm hesitant to shutdown any security software out of concern of forgetting to start that software back up.

Therefore unless I know that I'm done surfing the net and tired of playing a game on the computer I capture in MovieMaker anymore. One added benefit with MovieMaker is that it has a timer to stop capturing. No timer for starting capturing though. So far I've been able to do pretty much anything else while capturing with MovieMaker.
Chienworks wrote on 3/7/2007, 3:31 PM
I always capture with SONY's VidCap program, and i always surf, word process, edit in Vegas, play games, even have multiple renders going on while capturing. I've done this since my old P3 866MHz days. I'm not sure why so many have trouble dropping frames, but i can assure you that you really shouldn't have any problems.

One thing i usually do in XP is to set VidCap's priority to above normal. That helps some from time to time, though usually i get no dropped frames even if i leave it set to normal.