Dropping Frames on Capture to 2nd hd, please help!

herbie7 wrote on 7/1/2004, 5:09 PM
Capturing or playing from a second hard drive is slaughtering my media! 160G 7200 Western Digital, DMA mode is on, hardware appears to be set up fine, AND it is working fine when capturing using Windows Movie Maker!? Is there a setting in Vegas I need to check? Any suggestions on what to try to remedy this??? Thanks in advance for any info provided!

Mike H

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Spot|DSE wrote on 7/1/2004, 5:10 PM
How large is your capture Preview window? Size it down to 320 x 240 or smaller, you'll likely see this error disappear.
herbie7 wrote on 7/1/2004, 5:22 PM
Tried that Spot, I'm at 180x120. When I move things back over the primary drive, or when capturing from primary drive, it's great, even with a larger preview window. I know Maxtor drives were doing this to people, but the mystery here is that it works fine on this drive with movie maker. I'm stumped... Anything else you can think of before I try a new drive?
Spot|DSE wrote on 7/1/2004, 5:45 PM
Is the second hard drive on an IDE bus? If so, keep in mind that the slowest device on the bus determines the fastest speed of everything else on that same bus.
Is it a USB drive? If so, there is likely your source of trouble. Resource sharing for that particular bus? MovieMaker would likely call fewer resources than Vegas does...
Next, I'd be looking at overall resources. Sharing a NIC? Sound card? Try turning preview off altogether. What about graphics card acceleration? Turn it down.
These are all first-looks kinds of problems when you are getting dropped frames and you've enabled DMA on the bus.
JaysonHolovacs wrote on 7/2/2004, 8:52 AM
Also, ensure that no real-time virus scanning software is attempting to check the media files as they are written to that drive. Media files are huge and trying to scan them as they are written will kill you. I had NAV causing me to drop frames until I disabled it for the directory.
apit34356 wrote on 7/2/2004, 12:38 PM
I have used a couple of the 160G 7200 WD and have noticed that after about 30% full, the drive response slowed sometimes because of the drive doing temp_ calc. The Above suggestions usually are a good starting point. IF they do not resolve your problem, check for the drive being hot, (more than the drice C:), also observe if the drive is being properly cooled. also check for dust around the drive vents..
jsreg51654 wrote on 7/15/2004, 1:38 PM
NAV was my problem. Was starting to get a little ticked off. Been searching for several hours for a solution. Thanks for writing that!

-js