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Dropped Frames While Uploading

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my old camera does it when i upload video into adobe premier pro, but i figured thats cos its an old camera and plus its been broken a few times. so now i always just use my mini dv cam, and its been perfectly fine up until today when i was uploading from a shoot i did at my friends place, and it dropped a sh*tload of frames and also a few during an important shot which we only have one take.
it was on a brand new tape. does anyone know the cause of this pain-in-the-f***-a** problem?
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Your computer may be either a.) low on GB or b.) low on RAM or c.) have too slow a processor.

Here area list of things you can do to help prevent this...

http://www.jakeludington.com/ask_jake/2 ... pture.html
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I use Windows Movie Maker for capture.

Sounds odd, but it's the only program I know that has never dropped frames in my experience
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It never drops frames but it makes the files bigger than Texas!
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And Texas is Gigantor compared to wherever Ornsack is from! (oh yeah, Bristol.. haha! Loser!)
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Your computer may be either a.) low on GB or b.) low on RAM or c.) have too slow a processor.
well that pretty much explains it. my computer is running pretty low on memory at the moment. so ill have to delete previous raw footage from stuff i dont need.
thanks for the help.
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You could also buy an external hard-drive, they are getting really cheaper now. I bought an 80gb hard-drive for $80 a while ago, now you can get a 200gb hard-drive for that same price. If you do go with the external hard-drive option, make sure you get one that connects to your computer via firewire and not USB. Generally with editing it runs a lot fast on firewire, although mine is USB and it runs fine...I guess I just got lucky.
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What's Wrong With You?!: filming
LMAO!!!! Self inflicting much?
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You could also buy an external hard-drive, they are getting really cheaper now. I bought an 80gb hard-drive for $80 a while ago, now you can get a 200gb hard-drive for that same price. If you do go with the external hard-drive option, make sure you get one that connects to your computer via firewire and not USB. Generally with editing it runs a lot fast on firewire, although mine is USB and it runs fine...I guess I just got lucky.
way ahead of you. ive got a 250gb one for 100-150 AU$. although mines USB but it runs fine, even with editing i dont notice a difference from editing straight from my computers hard-drive. im re-uploading onto my external and so far no dropped frames, thanks heaps again.
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rhys wrote:LMAO!!!! Self inflicting much?
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Gyro wrote:And Texas is Gigantor compared to wherever Ornsack is from! (oh yeah, Bristol.. haha! Loser!)
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