DV images not very nice to look at (to put it in a gentle way)

[Alosja]

I bought a FS 115Z, and I connected my Sony camcorder to it. But the images captured on harddisk look awful. Why? they're flickering or something like that. Is the laptop not powerful enough? or is it the firewire-iLink adapter just bad (and why doen't a Vaio have a normal firewire port (tjeezes!!!))? can someone please help me, because I really want to do some viedo editing on my laptop.

[kee-lo_]

Hi,

Which DV cam do you have?
Have you defragged your hard disk lately? This is the best way to not get dropped frames during capture

[Alosja]

No, but it recorded it on my 😧 drive, which is almost completely empty... so that shouldn't be a problem.

[Alosja]

A Sony DCR TRV 33E pal

[kee-lo_]

Well you could try going to device manager
(Start > Control Panel > System > Hardware Tab > Device manager button) and uninstalling the firewire device than rebooting Windows. This will hopefully reinstall the driver

[robpaxton]

Also check device manager to ensure that DMA mode is activated for the primary IDE channel of the hard disk controller.

[POMPEYA]

I also have a FS115Z and had experienced your problem in the past until I downloaded the "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 Graphics Driver" in the VAIO Update page. It solved the problem.