HI

Can anyone help. am I wrong or is it normal that a Digital Video camera via firewire should not loose any frames when transfering to a PC. As mine on a 11 min clip lost over 700 frames...

I have a JVC GR-D20ek and my PC is a
P4 2800mhz with HT 800mhz FSB
1024mb DDR400
80gb harddrive
Windows XP home
Geforce FX5200 128mb.

Its a sitecom 3 port firewire card and I'm using Adobe Premire light version 6.

Cheers

Two questions.
1. Your system sounds up to the job. How fast is the hard drive? It needs to be at least 7200 RPM.

2. Are you set for NTSC or do you use a different standard?

3. Are you digitizing to the same partition as the program where it is getting its system calls?

A second A/V drive might be the answer. Video and audio files take up a lot of throughput and might need their own place to be stored and played back from. On my laptop I run a single 120 gig hard drive, but have it divided into two partitions, two drives more or less. The Avid program, windows etc goes on one, and all of the media files go on the other. No crashes or dropped frames yet.

Good luck,
MJS

Two questions.
1. Your system sounds up to the job. How fast is the hard drive? It needs to be at least 7200 RPM.

2. Are you set for NTSC or do you use a different standard?

3. Are you digitizing to the same partition as the program where it is getting its system calls?

A second A/V drive might be the answer. Video and audio files take up a lot of throughput and might need their own place to be stored and played back from. On my laptop I run a single 120 gig hard drive, but have it divided into two partitions, two drives more or less. The Avid program, windows etc goes on one, and all of the media files go on the other. No crashes or dropped frames yet.

Good luck,
MJS

I got rid of this camera as I did not like the problems I was having with it. But thanks for your help