Hi,

I've been using Studio 11 on my HP DV9000 running Vista 32Bit home premium for about 8 months with ok success, but now having a problem with capturing video from my Sony DV.  Each time after about 3/4 seconds of capture the software starts to drop frames at an enormous rate and within a few more seconds I have to stop the project.  I did have this problem a few months ago, and wasn't sure what solved it, I remember defragging the drive, but it didn't seem to fix it.... .

 I've tried:

New firewire cable

re-installing, firewire, video, hd drivers

defragging drive approx 35 gig free

disabling almost all processes....

all without any further success

I can plug the dv into my other HP DV9000 running XP and it captures the video no problemo....

 

any ideas what I can try?

 

Thanks in advance

Just checking:  You aren't capturing your video to a compressed drive/compressed folder, are you?  That is *guaranteed* to cause problems just like you're describing with capture.

Probably not, but it's worth asking.

No, it's a standard off the shelf HP notebook with firewire.... as mentioned had worked ok for many months just 2 days ago I hit this brick wall. 

OK, 2nd thing to check -- and someone with Vista experience may have to lend a hand, here -- is your disk drive using PIO or DMA for communications?  The hardware should be set to "DMA if available" (or however that's worded), and the current communication mode should be some flavor of DMA.

If your disk drive is using PIO communication mode, that causes high CPU utilization, and can result in dropped frames during capture.

Again, maybe not, but it's quick and easy to check.

BittMann