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Tips for Smooth Video Capture:
To ensure that you capture the highest quality video you may want to follow
these steps.
If your system is not optimized, the result may be dropped video frames.
Video with dropped frames will look jittery and will have audio dropouts.
1. Run Disk Defragmenter. Creating, modifying and deleting files
causes fragmentation of your hard drive. When files are frag-
mented, it takes longer to read or write files. You should
defragment your hard disk every two weeks to maintain an optimal
disk.
A. Close all applications
B. Click Start
C. Click Program
D. Click Accessories
E. Click System tools
F. Click Disk Defragmenter
G. Select the drive you would like to defragment.
Depending upon the size and speed of your hard drive, this process could
take up to an hour or more.
2. Dont run other applications while your are capturing video to your
hard disk. You may want to close some of those little applications
hiding in your system tray.
3. Change your Typical Role settings from desktop computer to
Network Server.
This will increase the size of the file and directory cache. This results in
increased speed when accessing the hard disk.
A. Right click on My Computer
B. Click Properties
C. Click Performance
D. Click File System
E. Click arrow next to Typical Role of this machine and
select Network Server
F. Click and drag the Read ahead optimization slider all the
way to full.
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