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IanG wrote on 8/7/2003, 6:51 AM
You could simply try capturing again - I had problems with Studio sometimes saying my drive couldn't manage the data rate (it could!). I'd also defrag the drive and make sure dma is enabled. Please don't take this as a dig, but did you try the Studio forum?

Ian G.
Atomicfog wrote on 8/7/2003, 6:55 AM
I'm new to these forums and don't know where a studio 7 forum is... Also I have tried capturing more than once...I just bought my 80GB harddrive and I know it has got to have a data rate that will work for studio 7 because studio 7 came out about 3 years before the drive was even made! And you know computer software gets better extremely fast... In three years any thing new should support 3 year old software...
IanG wrote on 8/7/2003, 7:08 AM
Studio 7 is made by Pinnacle Systems, Video Factory is made by Sonic Foundry - an entirely separate company. This is the VF forum, Studio 7 support is here.

But back to your immediate problem - if you've just bought an 80Gbyte drive it should easily manage the data rates needed for video capture. My guess is that DMA isn't enabled. Go into the Device Manager - settings/control panel/system - and look at your IDE Channels under "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"


Ian G.
ronaldf wrote on 8/7/2003, 12:20 PM
If enabling DMA does't work or if other problems come up, do as many others have done - uninstall Studio 7, through it in the trash and buy VideoFactory or if the budget will allow it - Vegas Video! You will end up with a lot lower stress level!!!
laz wrote on 8/8/2003, 2:16 AM
If your hd is fat32 then anything over about 40-50gb could be a problem.
IanG wrote on 8/8/2003, 2:33 AM
laz - why? I know about formatting problems, but performance?

Ian G.
laz wrote on 8/9/2003, 4:00 AM
Well, I may have got this wrong but I was told by a techy tech that the fat32 file format on a large hd can't be guaranteed to work properly by the os on partions over 40/50gb. As this seemed to fall in to the probs I had on my 120gb fat32 I played safe and converted it to ntfs - and vuella (can't spell in French) now no probs.
IanG wrote on 8/9/2003, 11:52 AM
You can't use the OS to format a FAT32 partition larger than 32 Mbyte, and there are limitations on the cluster size which could have performance implications - nothing that would cripple a disk that much, though.

Ian G.