>I'm running a 30G Travelstar drive that runs at 4200rpm, a Sonnet 500mHz >upgrade in a WS with 192MB of RAM, an OrangeMicro Firewire card and a >Sony DCR-VX2000. Playback is choppy onscreen, and export is terrible. >Almost no sound, and there are dropped frames. Anyone have any ideas?=20
Choppy playback onscreen may be normal, but terrible export definitely is not. I use a Wallstreet 233MHz (yes, 233MHz, and no cpu upgrade), 320MB, 20GB Hitachi drive (4200rpm), and Newertech Firewire2Go firewire card. Works like a charm (though, admittedly, I have never made any real *big* project on it, video and audio quality is great and there are no dropped frames). Since your system is not working very well, these are the suggestions that come to mind (I am assuming you're using system 9, otherwise that becomes my first suggestion - with system X you'd be wasting precious cpu cycles drawing the fancy aqua interface while dv frames are quietly dropped :-(): turn off all unnecessary extensions (I used Extension manager to create a very small extension set containing Quicktime, firewire and little else; in particular anything related to Appletalk and Tcp/Ip is turned OFF). turn off virtual memory (throwing in more actual RAM might help too, though you might get by with 192MB) have a clean partition for capture and export to tape (in my setup, I have a system partition, an editing partition and a capture/export partition, that I erase often to avoid fragmentation). if in spite of all this it still does not work properly, you might want to try using BTV Pro for capture and output (that's what I use, so it just might be that somehow iMovie is not behaving in your setup - I can't offer evidence pro or against iMovie in my setup, because I haven't used it). hth Luis -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
