I'm very new to digital camcorders. I've connected a Sony Handycam up via firewire to my PC and when I started to try and capture footage I was alarmed to see about 2-5 frames being dropped per second.
I tried on all my large drives (D, E and F) and all behaved the same. I tried another application, and even plugged the firewire cable into a different header on the mother board. Frames continued to be lost!
HOWEVER!!! If I capture it to C then all's fine.
Now what I don't understand is my C & D drives are actually the same IDE drive (partitioned), and my E/F drives are the same (partitioned) SATA drive which should be as fast, if not faster than the IDE.
It's as if there's some sort of windows setting on D, E and F which is causing the dropping?
Any help would be appreciated as my C drive is not big enough to capture video footage, where as D,E and F have a hundred gig free!!
UPDATE - After a couple of defrags, D is now also drop free! So it's just my lovely (newer) SATA drive (E & F) that drops! Remind me never to buy SATA again!
I tried on all my large drives (D, E and F) and all behaved the same. I tried another application, and even plugged the firewire cable into a different header on the mother board. Frames continued to be lost!
HOWEVER!!! If I capture it to C then all's fine.
Now what I don't understand is my C & D drives are actually the same IDE drive (partitioned), and my E/F drives are the same (partitioned) SATA drive which should be as fast, if not faster than the IDE.
It's as if there's some sort of windows setting on D, E and F which is causing the dropping?
Any help would be appreciated as my C drive is not big enough to capture video footage, where as D,E and F have a hundred gig free!!
UPDATE - After a couple of defrags, D is now also drop free! So it's just my lovely (newer) SATA drive (E & F) that drops! Remind me never to buy SATA again!
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