I am experiencing a high number of dropped frames. I am using a Sony
TRV520, with a firewire card (purchased two years ago). I have about
27 gig free on my hard drive (7200rpm), am running WiN2k on an AMD
Duron XP2100+ with 512MB RAM. I have selected the DMA option.

It seems that I have read many posts from users running similar and
even older systems without problems. Is a second hard drive the
answer? Does it matter if I get 2MB or 8MB buffer?

Renee wrote:

So you're using a single drive, yes? OS and capture on the same drive?

Have you partitioned the drive into two drive letters?

Have you defragmented lately? If not, get a good defragger like Norton
Utilities. You can get the full version of Norton System Works
Professional (CD only, no manual) for $23 from www.newegg.com. I bought
two copies from them recently. I like Norton Speedisk for a few reasons
: I can set it to defragment automatically in the middle of the night, I
can tell it to put certain files at the beginning or the end of the
disk, and unlike the microsoft defragger it does a very good job of
defragging free space, not just files. I can't stress that part enough
for video. You need lots of contiguous free space. Microsoft's defragger
often does a rather poor job leaving your files contiguous but not free
space.

Keith

Using abit, at7 max2 mb, 512mbs memory, winxp, premiere 6.5.

120mb maxtor hd for video, os drive is 80mb maxtor. 120mb maxtor is on high
point controller.

I do not drop any frames, capturing through my firewire port, with my sony
camera.

I use diskeeper 7.0 for defrag.

my 2 cents

"Keith Clark" <clarkphotography@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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See the following for ideas/tips. You shouldn't be dropping any frames with
your setup.
http://www.dvdoctor.net/cgi-bin/ubb/...ML/000024.html

If you have a resource conflict, the culprit is frequently an NIC card. You
should probably purchase an external firewire drive to capture to, and edit
from to eliminate the disk access problem, if you only have one drive.

JTH
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