dropping frames ? (newbie)

[johnocar]

I am trying to capture footage on my new Sony PC-105e with a 1394 f/wire card yet keep dropping many frames,This never happened on my older PC-5e,But maybe I've got too much on my hard drive or something (7 Gig used)on a 30 gig,I'm stuck on this one,Even having put a spare 30 gig on but get a "sorry cannot capture, The data rate on drive D is less than the require 4444 k/bytes a second" Any ideas guys??PLEASE.....

[Bilal]

try defragmenting your HDD

[txpharoah]

Sounds like you need UDMA or DMA on the HD.

Read my sticky in the CAPTURE forum. It deals with dropped frames and almost every reason why it happens.

[johnocar]

Thanks for that mate DMA wasn't enabled but the frames are still dropping,So I'm gonna disable Go-back etc,And persevere!.

[mkelley]

Definitely read Tx's frame dropping thread -- it's quite good.

My gut reaction is there is something wrong in your OS -- with WDM enabled there shouldn't be any frame dropping in a modern setup. Are you running XP? I would strongly recommend it (although Win2K is a decent substitute). If not, that's probably your problem right there.

And is your second hard drive spinning at 7200? If it is not, pick up a (cheap) video drive: for less than $100 you can buy 120GB of 7200 hard drive storage. No excuse not to have that.

All that said, Sony computers do indeed have some funky issues with video -- as I recall, they build in all this stuff (your firewire is resident on the motherboard, right?) and more than one person has complained about it not working right. Your ultimate solution might involve dropping back to your old computer.