Caputring DV to my spare hard drive doesn't work

[cappleby]

I have a Canon Optura60 miniDV camcorder. I have had it about 3 months. I can capture video just fine to my main drive ('C') using firewire and Adobe Premier Elements. However, I only have about 10 GBs of free space left on that drive, and it is not enough to capture a certain 2 hour segment of video that I want all on one DVD. I have a spare internal drive ('D' drive, 40GB, Western Digital, 7200 RPM, 8+MB of buffer), but for some reason when I tell Adobe Premier to save/capture the video onto the 'D' drive I lose frames constantly. It will capture to the 'C' drive fine, but not the 'D' drive. does anyone have any idea what may be happening here? I have reformatted the drive, but it doesn't help.

I'd also like to know if anyone thinks it would be worth my time (or would I have the same problem) to buy a external hard drive to do all my capturing.

Thanks for the help.
Chris

[edDV]

I have a Canon Optura60 miniDV camcorder. I have had it about 3 months. I can capture video just fine to my main drive ('C') using firewire and Adobe Premier Elements. However, I only have about 10 GBs of free space left on that drive, and it is not enough to capture a certain 2 hour segment of video that I want all on one DVD. I have a spare internal drive ('D' drive, 40GB, Western Digital, 7200 RPM, 8+MB of buffer), but for some reason when I tell Adobe Premier to save/capture the video onto the 'D' drive I lose frames constantly. It will capture to the 'C' drive fine, but not the 'D' drive. does anyone have any idea what may be happening here? I have reformatted the drive, but it doesn't help.

I'd also like to know if anyone thinks it would be worth my time (or would I have the same problem) to buy a external hard drive to do all my capturing.

Thanks for the help.
Chris

The second drive should work. How is it connected to the controller? Sometimes a CD or DVD drive on the same EIDE channel will cause interrupts. You could try disconnecting all but the HDD (as master) as an experiment.

The HDD should be set to DMA mode. The "capture" drive should be defragmented. This is easiest to manage by setting up a capture partition. Disk speed shouldn't be an issue for anything ATA66 or better.

Minimize background tasks. Anti virus software may be to source of the problem. Avoid using the computer while it is in transfer/capture mode.

An external drive presents even more issues. Try to get HDD2 working first.

Also it could be a software issue. Try WinDV (free) for the transfer.

[redwudz]

Usually an internal drive is best for capturing, or transferring DV in your case. Unless there is something wrong with the internal drive, it should have worked. An external drive would probably work OK, but doesn't seem worth the expense or necessary when you have a spare internal drive.

You might try WinDV to rule out a problem with Premier.

You can test data transfer rates to a drive with a program like SiSandra or similar. Here's a freeware version: http://www.overclockersclub.com/downloadcenter/download.php?action=file&id=12