Frame Dropping

[likwid8]

All i want to know is..

Im capturing from a VHS source and onto SVCD resolution, my question is as no one likes to drop frames while capturing, whats the lowest frame droppage percentage until the motion starts lagging? is it right off at 1 drops or is it like a minimal of 10 till it starts jerking?

thats all I want to know thank you!

[Dodzzz]

drop frames while capturing won't make the video lag. the capture program usually sync the video and audio automatically.

[likwid8]

So then whats the point of dropping frames???

whats the use if what you stated above doesnt matter?

[Dodzzz]

depends on your computer hardware, the program have to drop some frames (1 or 2) every several minutes to avoid lagging (out of sync between video and audio captured)

but if drop frames that caused by lack of speed on your computer, the program will automatically sync the video and audio (kinda like doubling the previous frame)

[Sulik]

If you capture a FILM source in NTSC, every 1 frame out of 5 is repeated, and it isn't very noticeable.
However, if you drop a frame while recording a scrolling text (CNN or Bloomberg TV), you'll see it right away, it depends on the content.

[likwid8]

im running:

Pentium-4 2.4Ghrtz 533 Bus Speed

512 DDR Ram

[DaveQB]

[quote="Dodzzz"]depends on your computer hardware, the program have to drop some frames (1 or 2) every several minutes to avoid lagging (out of sync between video and audio captured)
[\quote]

depends on the program

VD does that, but Virtual VCR doesnt drop any frames for sync purposes, it uses resampling techniques

Try Vitrual VCR and see if you get the same dropped frame rate

[likwid8]

Virtual VCR?

is that a new capturing program? if sdo is it on this site? thnxs

[DaveQB]

http://www.digtv.ws/
enjoy

[likwid8]

Thanks, im pretty much going to capture off my Direct Tv Receiver and my VCR. would you recommend using this program for both or VDub for certain things? thnxs

[DaveQB]

depends on your OS

as they says,

AVI_IO for Win98
Virtual VCR for Win2k/XP

and i would agree on the later but jave never captured with Win98 mysef

hope this helps

PS use VD for all your editing

Edit: added last line