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Hello,
A friend of mine is experiencing dropped frames when capturing from his Sony DV camera to his Dell (don't know which model, it is a PIV with a Dell firewire card). The dropped frames occur when a lot is changing in the image (e.g. panning).
Is there some resource for the optimal settings for a computer mainly used for this purpose ?
(I'm thinking PCI Latency values, write back cache, ... - perhaps some others I don't know about)
His system is equiped with a single harddrive (Western Digital, 80 GB), could this be one of the reasons ? Or could it be due to the Firewire card ? (if the latter, I would advise him to go for Canopus, Matrox, Pinnacle - Canopus and Pinnacle both have a relatively cheap firewire capture card)
Thanks !
Jörg
A friend of mine is experiencing dropped frames when capturing from his Sony DV camera to his Dell (don't know which model, it is a PIV with a Dell firewire card). The dropped frames occur when a lot is changing in the image (e.g. panning).
Is there some resource for the optimal settings for a computer mainly used for this purpose ?
(I'm thinking PCI Latency values, write back cache, ... - perhaps some others I don't know about)
His system is equiped with a single harddrive (Western Digital, 80 GB), could this be one of the reasons ? Or could it be due to the Firewire card ? (if the latter, I would advise him to go for Canopus, Matrox, Pinnacle - Canopus and Pinnacle both have a relatively cheap firewire capture card)
Thanks !
Jörg
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