Another dropping frames problem - different setup though !

[manu2000]

I've been through the forums but haven't had much joy on resolving my problem !

I have been having trouble with lots of lost frames (over 100 in a 30 sec capture). Here is some info on my system:

Video (VCR): Toshiba V853 (Brand New)
DV Bridge: Miglia Directors cut take 2 (new): Scart from VCR and firewire to PC. Using the PAL setup.
Scart from video to composite (Miglia): Gold plated
Computer: Windows XP using Pinnacle Studio 8.10. 2GHz pentium Dell machine with 1GB of RAM.My hard drive is a 7200rpm, 120 GB ultra DMA mode 5. I've defragged the drive with diskeeper prior to the capture and shut everything running in the background. The video itself is only around 5 years old (home video) and hasn't been used that much. I then tried using a new commercial video (a movie) and even that had around 60 frames dropped in the first 3 minutes !

I have tried Adobe premier trial and ULEAD Moviemaker too - have the same issue. Pinnacle indicates that the write speed of the hard drive is over 32 MB/s. The video plays well on a normal analogue TV. The scart is new and v.good quality. The only thing I can think of is the Miglia is dropping the frames when converting analogue to digital !

Any good ideas ? Help - I've spent a considerable amount on the equipment and not getting much return on it at the moment !!

[fmctm1sw]

Have you tried to capture from some other source? Try a cable TV cap or something and see if you drop frames. I had a brand new toshiba VCR and it dropped all kind of frames too. May be totally unrelated but I now use a VCR I found in the trash and it does not drop frames (believe it or not)....

[manu2000]

Thanks fmctm1sw. I used an old Sony SLV-E80 and this did help. Manged to reduce frames dropped to around 100 for every 30 minutes (which is substantially better than previously) by removing audio capture and using Adobe premier pro. I don't think that this is still acceptable though.