whats a dropped frame

gummiguy1 wrote on 8/13/2005, 11:08 PM
i captured 1 hour video and it said afterwards i had 177 dropped frames, any one know what that means? please email answer to howdy3037@aol.com...........also why does my new microsoft wirelessssssssssssssssssssssssssss mooooooooooooooooooooooooooeuse do this and mousssssssssssssssssssssssssss hang up o screen.............what junk......says signal is gooooooooooood an battery

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PeterWright wrote on 8/14/2005, 12:58 AM
It usually means that not all the video you had on tape made it onto hard drive.

There are many possible reasons - do a search on this forum for "dropped frames" - including speed of hard drive, interference from other software, etc etc, but there should ideally be no dropped frames. It may be a break in your recorded footage and the dropped frames simply represent the "gap"

More information on what you are capturing from and to, which hardware and software etc may help people make suggestions.

Don't know about wireless mice.
Grazie wrote on 8/14/2005, 1:10 AM
Peter? What do you reckon'? Wireless USB + USB capture . .what's the odds on this? Hmmm... - G
riredale wrote on 8/14/2005, 10:06 AM
You probably won't get anyone emailing any answers. Instead, try out the "Search" feature of this Board. There are thousands of very friendly and usable posts on this site, and many of them talk about dropped frames.

A "dropped frame" is where the PC is so overwhelmed with other tasks at the moment that it can't do a proper job of pulling in a complete video frame from the firewire connection to the camera. Rather than cut off the whole process, it just ignores that particular video frame and concentrates on working on the next frame instead.

You should have "0" dropped frames. There are lots of reasons why frames are dropped--do the search.

EDIT: Nuts. I should have read more closely what Peter already wrote and saved the bandwidth. Sorry about that.
Steve Mann wrote on 8/14/2005, 10:34 PM
"please email answer to howdy3037@aol.com"

No. This is a discussion forum and there may be others reading the posts who could learn as well.