Sammy63
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First of all, thanks for all of your input with this problem. I never expected this much attention for my problem. You guys have been great.
To answer all the questions:
I have three hard drives- Master 160g, secondary 200g, and a hot swappable 300g. All are 7200 rpm I believe, and I use one of the secondary drives when I’m capturing. I do a football video for our local high school every year and use up a lot of space.
I defrag those hard drives quite often (at least monthly) and had just defragged them before doing this latest capturing.
As far as the firewire goes, I have no idea. I didn’t even know there were different ones, but you bring up an interesting thought. I know I have several firewire ports but have for the life of this computer always used the one in the front for convenience.
I will definitely try one of them in the back. Wouldn’t that be great if that’s all it was?
Once again guys, thanks so much. Sam -
One last thing, my computer has a pentium 4, 2.6 ghz, 1.25 g ram.
Is that enough? I don’t have the money to just go out and load up on ram if I’m not sure if that’s the problem or not. -
Primary- Ultra DMA mode 5
Secondary- Ultra DMA mode 2 -
I am capturing to a separate uncompressed drive. As far as DMA goes, how do I check that (and what is it)?
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Thanks for all the input, guys. I think I’ll try out the virtualvcr software to see if that helps.
I guess I should have been more specific about how I was capturing. I am using a Sony Minidv Camcorder DCR-trv33. I pass through it with analog in and firewire out. I use End-it-all2 to get rid of any programs that are causing lagging. Apparently there is a problem somewhere else.
Thanks again. If the virtualvcr helps it will save me a lot of money and hassle. Crossing my fingers, Sam