Multiple Frames dropped in Capture Utility, please help.

oldeschool wrote on 7/17/2003, 7:57 PM

I am new to capturing DV, after making a whole video with an analog capture card. I am just starting to capture from a GL-1, have a Pentium 4 2.2 GB celluron, 512 DDR Ram, 7200 RPM drive, ADS firewire card. Using mostly defaults, getting multiple dropped frames. Any suggestions?

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bdunn wrote on 7/17/2003, 8:17 PM

If you haven't already, you may want to check your hard drive settings and make sure it's set to 'DMA'. Hope this helps.

oldeschool wrote on 7/17/2003, 8:35 PM

I looked in Vegas 4 and in my control panel for a hard drive setting for DMA and couldn't find one. Where might I find this setting? Thanks for the help.

seeker wrote on 7/17/2003, 9:03 PM

Oldeschool,

"...Where might I find this setting? "

Right-click on the My Computer icon and click Properties to bring up the System Properties dialog box. Click the Device Manager tab, click the plus sign next to Disk Drives, highlight your hard disk name, click the Properties button, and click the Settings tab. Down about midway you should see a DMA check box. After you check the check box and click OK, restart Windows. At least that's the way it works on my Windows 98SE. You didn't say what your operating system is.

-- Seeker --

CrazyRussian wrote on 7/17/2003, 10:20 PM

I dont think it's a PC issue, and I never used GL-1 camera, but I'm gessing thtat the problem is there - in the camera. I've used couple of D8 Sony's, and when I capture tapes made in DV format, no drop frames, when I capture tapes recorded in analog format - there are some drop frames. And what I've noticed that drops occure only when camera was either shakened or some extensive movement occured when recorded. When I record same tapes, same footage through ADVC-100 - 0 dropped frames. Well, I gess it's more of signal on the tape issue than a camera....
Ahhh, I dont know. I never got to the bottom of it, but it's defenetely not PC issue. I also have P4 but it's dual 2.4 Ghz, with 2 Gigs of RAM and 10 Ultra 360 HDs on RAID0, so performance is not an issue. Anybody else has any ideas???

oldeschool wrote on 7/20/2003, 5:40 PM

I am running XP pro, and there is no such animal as a DMA check box option. I tried what the crazy russian suggested, and even on very still shots I am still dropping just as many frames as in shaky ones-- about one out of every 6. Anyone have any more ideas?

donp wrote on 7/20/2003, 8:50 PM

Oldschool try this, I have XP PRO and two UDMA 5 drives.

Control Pannel> Performance & Maintainance> System> Hardware> Device Manager>
IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers> Primary IDE Channel> highlight and select the "View Tab"> Advanced settings> there you shold see the Devices (your hard drives). Make sure the "DMA if available" is selected for each and there should also be a window in each area the shows the UDMA rating of the drive. Do not use PIO.

I hope this helps you.

JakeHannam wrote on 7/20/2003, 9:08 PM

If you are using an Intel chipset, you might need to download the Intel Application Accelerator from www.intel.com. Depending on your computer, many times the "enable DMA if available" is not available. The Intel Application Accelearator takes care of this for you.