Pinnacle Studio Version 8 Problem

[dwall]

Hello All

I'm new to DV and am trying for the first time to capture video. I am using Pinnacle Studio Version 8. When I pressed ''capture'' I got this error message. It seems like I need to figure out how to increase my rate.

Can anybody help me?

[setarip]

Make sure that DMA is turned on for your "C:\" hard drive...

[dwall]

sorry...i'm a newbie. i haven oclue what that means....could you help guide me through that?

[spinningwheel]

Try the DMA suggestion by setarip above, if that is not the problem you can goto the Pinnacle Forum located here:

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/wwwsupport/InteractiveSupport/us/frameset.htm?&Langue_ID=7

They have extensive info available for their software.

[dwall]

yeah the DMA suggestion didn't work. made it a bit faster but still can't get up to 4,000. i went to the forum and i saw the error message that i have. but they just said to fix dma, which i did

anything else?

[Marek70]

System Specs.

What is the system specs? Modern HD's should be able to hit 25-30MB/Sec easily. Even the old ATA/66 (circa 1998) could do 10MB/Sec or better. If you can't sustain a 4.5MB/sec transfer, then I would say look to your HD, IMHO. Sisoft software makes a program called Sandra that can check your HD throughput. There are other programs to do this as well. Hope this helps.