Capture to external hard drive

kelleen · Post by **kelleen** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:31 pm

Using VS11+ on Windows Home Premimum. When I try to capture video from DV camcorder, and save it to my external hard drive, it refuses to save it there. VS will only let me save it to my hard drive (C).
Any suggestions?

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:06 pm

It coulkd be that teh connection to your external drive is to slow for real time capture. Save to an internal drive and then move it over afterwards.

kelleen · Post by **kelleen** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:09 pm

I'm able to capture and save to the external hard drive with windows media import and another video capture program without any problems.. Maybe a setting somewhere in VS needs to be changed?

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:16 pm

Maybe, I don't use VS so can't comment. Maybe VS is just more particular?
I'm only offering work arounds sorry, but if other apps capture to your external why not capture with them and then use VS to edit?

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:23 pm

kelleen wrote:I'm able to capture and save to the external hard drive with windows media import and another video capture program without any problems.. Maybe a setting somewhere in VS needs to be changed?

Sorry if you have done this,, but have you changed the Cature Folder to indicate your external hard drive. (from the capture window)
or File Preferences--Working Folder

kelleen · Post by **kelleen** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:08 pm

yes I have.......I will make sure that I have it correct under File Preferences again.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:49 pm

You aren't by any chance doing something different this time, like using your mini DV camera as a passthrough device to capture analogue video from, say, an analogue camera or VCR? If so, VS11 has a bug which will not allow it to capture from analogue source material.

If not, then I noticed that my own VS11+ on Vista Home Premium also captures mini DV badly (though I haven't tried capturing to an external drive). Background applications need to be turned off, otherwise I get a lot of dropped frames.

In any case, I -- and a number of other users here -- tend to use a free, small program called WinDV to capture our DV (never any dropped frames) then open the captured DV in VS to edit it. That works fine too on Vista.

kelleen · Post by **kelleen** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:59 pm

not doing the analog thing....have a different program that captures the analog stuff.

WinDVD came on the bonus CD and have installed that program.

when you say "then open the captured DV in VS to edit it"....you are meaning import media to timeline or library, corret?

I'm new to this program.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:02 pm

you are meaning import media to timeline or library

Yes.

And the program I mentioned is NOT WinDVD (a software DVD player), but exactly as I typed it before: WinDV which can be downloaded from windv.mourek.cz/

kelleen · Post by **kelleen** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:56 pm

thanks !