is this pinnacle, dazzle or my new PC causing my frame dropping problems

[arthur1971]

Hi,

I have come here hoping someone will point me in the right direction.

I have successfully used pinnacle studio 9 for years. Making DVDs from my DV camcorder and editing from my VCR.

I purchased a new PC 2 months ago and everything went fine editing from my DV camcorder, but when I tried to use the Dazzle DV90 thing (sorry) from my VCR I was dropping frames at a rate of 10 PER SECOND!

Now pinnacles technical support no longer supports studio 9 - so today I went out and bought studio 11 - but still the problem persists.

I have tried the following things without success:

1) Saved my captured clips on a separate hard drive
2) disabled my network connections
3) tried to capture on the lowest resolution

none of these work. However it seems to make no difference to the level of frame dropping if I capture on a low or high resolution. I'm no scientist - but I guess quality is not the issue.

My PC has a 2.4GHz dual core processor with 200+GB in each drive (with very little used)
My graphics card (and here I know nothing of what I am talking about) is called VIA Chrome 9 HC IGP

Any help with this would be very much appreciated as I am going up the wall!

[aedipuss]

try plugging it into a different usb port. or unplugging all other usb devices. usb is shared and something may be hogging more than it should.

also check your hardware device list to make sure you have usb2 not 1.1 there should be a device listed as an usb "enhanced" controller.

[edDV]

If your computer has an IEEE-1394 port just capture DV from that. You can use WinDV software then import the file to Studio.

Does your new computer have Vista? That may be the issue if you don't also have Vista drivers for the Dazzle.