IEEE 1394 card

[Foz]

I recently installed a IEEE 1394 card for purpose of capturing DV video. Why does this 1394 card show up as bridge in my LAN and internet connections? Foz

[Craig Tucker]

Because you can use firewire to create a LAN

[vitualis]

At short distances, a very FAST LAN!

Regards.

[Foz]

Does this hurt my ability to capture DV video. I'm dropping frames. Foz

[Craig Tucker]

No, wont make any difference. Are you transferring to a seperate hard drive (ie not the drive that your OS is on) also make sure that DMA is turned on for your hard drive.

[Foz]

Craig, Thanks, I'm capturing to a 2nd HDD and I have checked,I'm in UDMA mode 5 on both HDDs. I have run check disk,defragged and moved all files out of the partition part of 2nd HDD that I capture to. Will it help this empty partition 93GB if I re-format it. If so should I do a quick format or long. If this don't work I am thinking about enditall. What puzzles me is that I previously captured without dropping frames when the 2nd HDD was new in Nov. 03. Foz

[MrMungus]

Craig, Thanks, I'm capturing to a 2nd HDD and I have checked,I'm in UDMA mode 5 on both HDDs. I have run check disk,defragged and moved all files out of the partition part of 2nd HDD that I capture to. Will it help this empty partition 93GB if I re-format it. If so should I do a quick format or long. If this don't work I am thinking about enditall. What puzzles me is that I previously captured without dropping frames when the 2nd HDD was new in Nov. 03. Foz

What capture program?

[Foz]

Pinnacle Studio 8

[Will Hay]

Will it help this empty partition 93GB if I re-format it. If so should I do a quick format or long.

Personally I perform a quick format before every capture (takes thirty seconds), and never store anything on my dedicated capture drive.
Will

[Foz]

Will, I did the long format last night,it took some time. Next time I will try the short. Someone had told me moving and deleting files did not leave a clean HDD. Foz

[Will Hay]

Someone had told me moving and deleting files did not leave a clean HDD

They were correct
Will

[Craig Tucker]

Will, I did the long format last night,it took some time. Next time I will try the short. Someone had told me moving and deleting files did not leave a clean HDD. Foz

Did this help with your framedrop issue ?

[Foz]

Finally got my frame dropping cured. I had 359 files in my IE
favorites, I copied this favorite folder to 2nd HDD, and deleted the
favorites in IE down to 63 files. I captured two 30 minute DV tapes without
dropping a frame. Thanks to all. Fozj