Rexjim:

What is...

1) Your HD speed RPM?

2) Interface you are capturing from (USB 1.1, USB 2.0 or 1394)?

-Mike

 

Thanks for your help.
1) Your HD speed RPM?
I don't know how can I find out?

2) Interface you are capturing from (USB 1.1, USB 2.0 or 1394)?
capturing from 1394

-Mike

Rexjim:

I can only tell you my experience and what I do to minimize dropped frames on capture.

You should have at least a 7200RPM drive. Its best to keep this drive defragged. 1394 is an excellent bus for capture so you are set here.

In order to discover the RPM of your drive, you may need to go to the manufacturer and type in the drive ID. The manufacturer should then have the stats somewhere on its site about your drive.

If you know nothing about the HD on your system you could do the following: (This method is lengthy but it is the only way I know of how to obtain info on a piece of hardware for which I have no info such as manufacturer, stats, etc):

Right-click My Computer on your desktop, select Manage, choose Device Manager and expand Disk drives. Your HD should be listed here. Note the number, go to Google (or even better www.metacrawler.com), type in that number and select search. Check out the search results until you find one specifying stats for your disk (manufacturer, RPM, etc.).

Just some additional info:  I have my main HD 2-partitioned. The first partition (about 20Gig) I have for OS, apps, etc. The second parition I keep de-fragmented and use only for video capture, render and encoding for DVD (Keep in mind that you will need about 13Gig for each hour of AVI video captured).

This setup works very well for me.

Any other ??? please feel free to ask.

-Mike

 

Your harddrive specs should be 7200RPM and 8MB cache. We use a Hitachi 7K60 on our laptop. We have a Firewire card to handle the video capture.  We recommend that you turnoff the preview monitor (software program) to prevent any dropped frames. Hope this info helps. Mike.