Too many dropped frames

ReneH wrote on 7/27/2003, 5:55 PM

Im experiencing too many dropped frames while capturing. I have about 37 gig on the capture drive, it is DMA, and the tape to capture is about 40 minutes long. I will alos clean out more files so I can have more room to edit.

The first 2 minutes brings on about 40 dropped frames. Also, As I look at the video from the camera's lcd view i dont notice anythig wrong woth the video. It seems to be playing smooth with no artifacts.

I have a 1.2 gig amd cpu, 1 thousand megs ram and two drives. Also, I cleaned the camera thniking that was the problem still no resolve. Any fresh ideas?

Comments

FuTz wrote on 7/27/2003, 6:56 PM

Your capture drive must be **physically** separated from Vegas AND Windows (that must be on your other drive).
You must close all your applications when capturing (but I'm pretty sure you did that...)
Try defragmenting both your drives.
HTH

MDVid wrote on 7/27/2003, 7:58 PM

http://www.dvdoctor.net/cgi-bin/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000024.html

See above for discussion of editing and dropped frames.

JTH

johnmeyer wrote on 7/27/2003, 8:18 PM

Background processes can be killers. Click on Start, Run, and then type msconfig. Click on the Startup tab and disable all startup processes. Reboot and try again. You can reneable later by running msconfig again.

ReneH wrote on 7/27/2003, 10:24 PM

Thanks all for the advice.

I'm defragging as I post this response. It looked like my drive was in dire need of defragging! Its gonna take all night to defrag! Yikes! LOL!

I am anxious to retry the capture and see how things turn out. Beleiev it or not, this is the first time I've seen dropped frames on Vegas. It really spooked me.