DV Camcorder, firewire capture and dropped frames.

[ElectroBlaster]

I have the following:

Samsung VP-D362
Sony Vegas 7.0
Asus Ati motherboard with on-board firewire and 2.4ghz ht p4
XP Pro SP2
Seagate 80gb ide drive
Western Digital 750gb Sata

I made sure video capture was not using the system drive and only using the sata drive which is partitioned in half. Initially using the system drive the capture was dropping frames like no tomorrow. Then I realised the mistake and set it correctly then tried again. So far its reported one dropped frame but until the capture finishes I cant be sure how many frames it has really lost, so far im saving a 60minute tape which is almost done.

Is there any other things I can do to eliminate dropped frames completely?

 

[ElectroBlaster]

I know the cpu is sloth like, I gave the kids my core duo setup because I didnt really care about it at the time... maybe I should put the camera on that instead. I do tend to run a fairly cleen install of windows apart from having zonealarm on it and its very recently fresh aswell and both drives were blanked and re-partitioned. I also have daemon tools and a cookie blocker running so should I turn them off?.

 

[ElectroBlaster]

Some good advice chaps

One thing I have noticed is the captured video always comes out as avi and they are flaming huge. I have two computers hooked into sky+ boxes recording with radeon all in wonder cards. They capture in mpeg2 format and ive always been really happy with the quality and file size. Is there anyway I can capture in mpeg via firewire from a camcorder? Unfortunatley I never got the analogue output lead for it and I cannot find any for sale anywhere so im stuck with firewire

 

[ElectroBlaster]

Thats a problem, ive looked all over that program and I can change the settings to mpeg1 or 2. I can just convert the file but it will take along time. I guess I have no choice tbh.