Averaging 120 drop frames per hour.....

[bluevine]

A newbie is having serious frame dropping problems. I'm using Pinnacle DC10 capture card with Pinnacle Studio Version 7. Win ME. 384Meg of RAM. 40 Gig hardrive which is about 40% free. I'm capturing analog video. When Pinnacle software looks at my hardrive it tells me my max write speed is about 9000 KB/second. It tells me I can safely go up to around 6000. Well, I'm capture at a measley 2400 KB/s and I'm still dropping an average of 2 frames a minute!
I've done all the normal stuff like ScanDisk and Defrag
I've even gone down as low as 1000 KB/s on the capture and I'm still consistently dropping frames.
The analog video is pretty clean (VHS recorded in SP) and I seem to always drop frames regardless of the source. Any ideas?
Many thanks.

[sherman]

I also get the same drop rate of just under 2 frames per minute. I don't notice it in the final AVI or MPEG. I think the frame drop is is only to keep the audio in sinc.

Sherman

[TenaciousJP]

Yeah, the drops are to keep the audio in sync.

I remember when I used to edit video back at school. It was a decent CPU with a good setup. We had the Pinnacle DV500 and Adobe Premiere 6.0. We could capture DVD-quality with NO DROPS EVER! Only problem was that after 5-10 minutes, the sound was off-sync and the video would look like a bad kung-fu movie.

I say, if the video looks great to you, then it's great. You are the audience.

-J

[Anonymous65]

If you're dropping frames to stay in sync with the video, and the frame drops is very high, you have a sound card that is way off sampling frequency. Get a better sound card, perhaps even one with high sampling frequency stability and accuracy. On my system, I need to drop about 30 frames an hour to stay in sync with the audio. That is one second of correction per hour. It's bit strange, because the audio can be resampled to match the video frame rate without dropping any frames, which is done in VirtualVCR. I would think that all capture applications would use this feature by now.