VS9 Jams up during Video capture.

87th piper · Post by **87th piper** » Wed May 30, 2007 4:14 am

OK, 1.5 gig upgrade to try to solve the problem, no good. That is with every possible background program shut off. took back the firewire hardware and bought another. uninstalled and reinstalled 3 times and no good. Here is what happens, starts capturing fine. jams shortly after and completely locks up my windows xp. BTW this a laptop. Is that any problem? I only have a celeron processor but the kid at my tech assist desk said it would/should work. 80 g hdd. could it be the ADS Firewire my VS9 was bundled with? I have been trying to work this out for over a week. As per my favorite Circuit city nerd guru, I am doing every thing properly. He said try vegas - well Ive spent 200 trying to solve thus far, I'll ask you guys. Thanks

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Wed May 30, 2007 4:41 am

What exactly are you trying to capture? How is the gear connected? If you are trying to get your system to generate mpeg2 on the fly you might be pushing a string. If it is DV-AVI via fire wire you might be running out of HDD space. 80 gig is not much and a DV-AVI file can quickly fill any free space.

Other than that, give more specific detail and we will see.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed May 30, 2007 5:54 am

Another possibility is that you are trying to capture DV using the Type 2 Encoder, which might be too much for your Celeron machine. Check in the Options icon in the Capture screen -- with the capture format set to DV -- and if it is set to Type 2 (which it is by default on installation, at least on my computers), change it to Type 1.

For what it is worth, I have an old P3 1GHz laptop with only 512 MB RAM, and it happily captures over firewire using my old VS9 which is installed on it.