Adding to Peter's good advice, make sure you're capturing to the external drive, assuming it's firewire connected. No PC does well capturing to the system drive, although it can, like many video things, work well enough some of the time to make you think it's not a problem. It's helpful to have a second internal drive dedicated to video, particularly when you want to transcode from a project on one drive to an MPEG-2, for example, targeting another drive. Reading and writing to the same drive slows things down. Get the latest version of DirectX from Microsoft, check the Adobe site for any updates or issues relating to capture with your hardware configuration. Check your captured clips in Windows Media Player to ensure that they are showing dropped frames, keep your drives defragged, even when they report no requirement to do so - that advice wasn't written for video editing work. Maintain a minimum of 20% free space on a capture drive. Is your graphics "card" on the Pentium chip or do you have a separate card? This won't affect capture but can affect playback. Non-linear editing software generally provides an overlay of the video capture, and if it can't keep up to the frame rate it will default down to whatever it can do, given the hardware available. Editing has become much more stable in the past five years but it's still a monstrous workout for the average recent PC. And, when you finally get it working smoothly think very hard about changing anything. Stability is everything. I'm using a three year old box with P4-1.6 Ghz processor, half a gig of RAM and Premiere 6.5. It works reliably every day and that's the holy grail.
David Hurdon At 11:15 PM 12/23/2005 +0000, you wrote: I don't know what is causing your frame drops, etc., but it probably isn't a Premiere issue, as such. I'm running Premiere Pro 1.5 on a 2GHz Pentium 4 with 512Mb of memory and no dualcore, and I've never, ever dropped a single frame or had a single corrupt piece of captured video. It might be worth checking your firewire cable. Some of the cheaper ones can get damaged inside, which plays havoc with your capture. It pays to buy good heavy-duty cables. The other possibility is the speed of your drives. For video capture, the drives have to be 7200 rpm at least, and Dell frequenty ships PCs with 5400 RPM drives. Peter ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/ADr1lB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
