Frame dropping solved

[zillaman4]

I had a problem with frames dropping. I tried all suggestions and capturing at DV quality my frames were still dropping like flies hit with Raid. My PC was adequate with a 2.53 P4 WITH 533 MHz FSB, 160 GB RAID(0), 512 MB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200. My last resort was another hard drive. I bought an external 80 GB drive with 8 MB cache and a USB 2 connection. The read/write transfer speed of 23 MBs is about half of my internal drive, but it works great. I can capture full quality video using Studio Version 8 with no more than 2 drop frames every 7 minutes - usually no dropped frames. I do have to disable my virus protection while transferring though. The only thing I should have done was gotten a larger drive, possibly 160 GB or higher, but my external box will support up 300 GB.

I know I was about to give up, so I hope this will help some of you.

[Tommyknocker]

Nice. My framedropping disappeared completely when my wife let me by a Sony camcorder with a passthrogh on sale. 0 dropped frames for two straight hours.

[lordsmurf]

RAID drives are known to do this.
Main reason I suggest against RAID for video.
Evidence goes both ways on this.