capturing problem on FCE

Hi,

I have 2 major problems

I'm having trouble capturing footage onto Final Cut Express. Whenever it starts to capture it says 'allocating disk space', thre is no visual and its taking a really long time to do this.

I am using a dvcam walkman for playback. Plus I am using a new drive 'seagate'. So I really don't understand this.

The other problem is that I'm getting dropped frames while capturing. What if I turn the dropped frames off. will i be able to see them and edit them out while editing on the timeline??

Any help will be appreciated. By the way I am working on the MAC.

Thanks
Aimon

FCE capturing reply

I am using Mac G5 and a seperate 'Seagate' drive. It has started capturing now however since the capturing time has been set to 30 minutes, once i start recapturing it does the 'allocating' thing again and it is wasting a lot of time.

Aimon

bimmzy said:

Are you capturing to your boot drive (Mac HD) or on a separate drive??

What Mac are you using to do this job on anyway?

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Capture drive

Yes the drive is set as capture drive, in fact I have put all folders in it.

Thanks
Aimon

bimmzy said:

sorry. Is the drive firewire/usb and have you set that drive as a scratch drive in your capture settings?

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