How to minimise or avoid dropped frame?

[hmpua]

Hi! Does anyone know how to minimise or avoid dropped frame during capturing via a firewire card. Please advise!

[i-on-s]

Have a fast anuff hard drive with plenty of space and defrag the hard drive before using it or just very often, and have anuff ram and i cant think of anything else. if your pc has a scsi port i would suggest getting a scsi h/d for capping files i use a 15,000rpm seagate h/d for capturing video and editing but it is very costly and also make sure there are no programs running that dont need to be like virus scan and such.

[Will Hay]

Do a (quick) format of the drive you use before each capture and use it for just that = capture, no storage, no nothing.
Also, fill in your forum computer profile so we can see what chances you have of success
Will

[skateni]

If you have IDE, use a dedicated hard disk for video capture and connect it to it's own channel. If you have a slow processor, capture it in AVI and encode it using offline encoder ( on the fly software encoding takes up a lot of CPU time ).