Capturing Problem

antzpompeii · Post by **antzpompeii** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:21 am

Ken Berry wrote:I hate to complicate your life, but if you are really worrying about dropped frames, you can download a tiny, free program called WinDV from http://windv.mourek.cz/ I have used this program occasionally, and it is dedicated to nothing except capturing DV. It can do it in Type 1 or 2, and boasts no dropped frames. I have never detected any. You can try it, and if it works, open the captured video in Video Studio. One thing I like about it is that you can assign your own central name to the files you capture, though it then assigns subsidiary alpha-numerical titles to that root name to subsequent clips.

Going to download right now... hopefully it will also capture the other footage in between the blank unrecorded space.

antzpompeii · Post by **antzpompeii** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:57 am

Ok -

Just reporting back -

Tried the wonderful WinDV and it only dropped 23 frames - you can't even tell theres a problem! wow!!!! unbelievable!

The only problem now is putting it all together! and to see if i can delete the mowing sound from the background!!!!

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:54 am

Hooray, hooray,

but with your system spec's you shouldnt get dropped frames if you import DV-AVI. Have you checked whether ULTRA DMA is enabled for your hard disc drive? You'll find that in the device manager, START >Control Panel >System > Hardware >Device Manager, expand the node next to "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" and highlight the line for the primary IDE channel, right click this and click on "Properties". Select "Advanced Settings" and for "Transfer mode" select "DMA if available"

Click ok and close the device manager and control panel windows.

If asked to, reboot your system and see if you still drop frames.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:24 am

Antz -- just a footnote. With WinDV, I found that the dropped frames were always associated with the starting couple of seconds (remember, for us here in Australia/PAL land, there are 25 frames per second, so dropping 23 frames in all is less than one second's video.) Given that I usually set the starting point at least five seconds before I really intended to edit, this is therefore irrelevant. Glad you found WinDV of use...

antzpompeii · Post by **antzpompeii** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:53 am

but with your system spec's you shouldnt get dropped frames if you import DV-AVI.

I think Ken's reply above explains the dropped frames. Anyways, i played it back and there doesn't seem to be any difference.

Have you checked whether ULTRA DMA is enabled for your hard disc drive?

Yes = "DMA if available"

Me very happy so far!!!!

antzpompeii · Post by **antzpompeii** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:01 pm

With WinDV, I found that the dropped frames were always associated with the starting couple of seconds (remember, for us here in Australia/PAL land, there are 25 frames per second, so dropping 23 frames in all is less than one second's video.)

Yes and i played it back and there seems to be no great loss or difference. Also found that it drops the frames after the first footage recorded, when it goes onto the blank unrecorded space > it seems to drop the frames. (I just deleted those sections out) and about to put it all together in VS8.

Glad you found WinDV of use

It seems to be a very easy and quick program and i feel that it captures much better than VS8. I'm guessing that VS8 is powerful for editing mainly. - but will report back and probably post thread after thread once i start doing this!

but at least you lovely ppl have gotten me here so far.... <<<thank-you sooo much >>>