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"Harry Putnam" <reader@newsguy.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 02:16:28 GMT, "i'm_tired"
> <it_isnt_valid@emailaddy.edu> wrote:
>
> >Harry Putnam wrote:
> >> I don't remember seeing this on onther captures... but then I've only
> >> done a total of 3. Using Pinnacle Studio 8 (updated) I notice
> >> 436 frames dropped in 37 minutes of video. Is this abnormal?
> >
> >Yup. You should have zero dropped frames.
> >
> >What are you capturing and how are you capturing it?
>
> I'm capturing video footage from a dv camera (Sony DCR VX20000) over a
> firewire (400MB) cable into firewire port on KV8 Asus mobo (for
> Athlon64 architecture)
>
> Using Studio8 capture tools.
> I'll add that it seems to have all happened early in the transfer.
> Since when I noticed, it was 30 minutes deep. And at 48 minutes there
> had been no more drops. May even have been some blundering I did
> getting started I haven't had a chance to test and see if it.
> re-occurs.
>
> Thanks posters for some sanity input.
If the tape is okay, then it's possibly the HD. If your only HD has big
cache, fast and has ample of space, it might be okay but you should capture
video to a second HD if possible.