Hardware = Canon ZR20 Digital camera - Firewire
Software = 98SE & 2.0e SF Vid. Capture & SF Vid. Fact. 1.0

Sounds good at first, then slowly desinigrates within the 1st 15 seconds.

Just to clarify. I beleive the SonicEMP was refering to information about your computer. For example processor speed, amount or RAM etc. etc. etc.

Is this with VideoFactory 2.0a and Video Capture 2.5?
Is the choppy sound in the preview DV from camera?
Or is it from playing off the timeline?

I'm having sane Problem with sound in capture mode with preveiw and smart preveiw
options that after 3 min or so of capture produces continous high pitch niose that
locks Vf editing up ie capture function appears to continue but close capture down
editing will place on time line Whining sound continues, but cannot play video
from time line ie VF appears to have locked.

AMD 1g K7T Pro 2A MB, 128 Ram, x2 30Gb 7200 HD, on board AC 97 sound chip
Matrox G400 Dual Head Sony TRV320e, Swann 1394 Fire wire card.

DMA enabled

Is this with VideoFactory 2.0a and Video Capture 2.5?
ANS: VF 2.0a & Vid Cap. 2.0h
Is the choppy sound in the preview DV from camera?
ANS: Camera playback is fine.
Or is it from playing off the timeline?
ANS: Realtime, Playback, & Recording - all audio is dropping out and has about a 2 or 3 second delay.

PS I have a Pyro Video Caputure card...do these require driver's? Not sure if the capture card might be the problem or not? If they do have drivers, how do I locate it in the Device Manager? Thanks, Kevin

Hardware = Pentium III, 512 MofRAM, 1GHZ Processor, 2 30 gig Hard Drives (DMA Enabled), Cannon ZR20 DV Camera, PYRO Firewire Card, Layla Sound Card, and Sound Blaster AWE-64 Sound Card

Software = 98SE, Video Fact. 2.0a (Build 91), Video Fact. Capture 2.0h(Build 80)

Problem = VIDEO CAPTURE PROGRAM - The sound is there but breaking up alot during record, real time, and on play back + there is an echo/delay going on. The DV camera plays it back fine. I've tried with Audio Pre-view off and no luck. I play other audio files on PC and they sound fine. Not sure why this is happening? Thanks for your comments....

Someone mentioned to run REGCLEAN from microsoft, but that program is no longer available from them.

I too had choppy sound on video capture with the new updated version a. of VF. The choppy sound when away when I went into MSCONFIG and freed up more resources (available memory) on my 900 MGZ PC with 256K RAM..

Does your 1394 card have a dedicated IRQ? If it is sharing an IRQ with other devices, esp bandwidth-hungry devices, that may be part of the problem. Seach microsoft.com online for instructions on how to change this. Pretty easy in 98SE, tricky in Win2k.

Hi and thanks for replying: The IRQ is on it's own channel separate from other devices. I noticed during playback in smart pre-view with pre-view audio on - I see the timer in the lower right hand corner being very eratic...it zips for a few seconds, then stops for a few seconds, then starts back up. Sounds like the audio is fighting hard to be in real time - then the video is lagging way bad. At this point I'm wondering if I should just buy a better Firewire Card??

A "better" firewire card should make no difference- they all spew data at the same rate and they do not do any processing.

I think there's a system problem somewhere- how about confirming that DMA is enabled for your drives?

Also- can you take a single captured DV clip and play that back at full frame rate in a new, clean DV project? If you don't get full frame rate with that, it is surely a system issue. If you do get full frame rate, the problem may be related rto project settings.

DMA is enabled on both drives & Have re-confirmed that the Firewire Card is on IRQ 9 and no other device on the system is sharing plus all other devices are on separate IRQ's. I can play back some of the 1st things I did, they look like they are close to real time - but they are only 15 sec. total, so not much to test on there. For new projects the audio gets waxed. What is RTO project settings?

Thanks, Kevin

Ok, I feel ummm fairly dumb...but what's new? : )
When I upgraded...I did not delete the old Icon's on my desktop...they were taking me to the old programs. I was going to try an un-install and re-install...did a search on "Video" and brought up all the Vid. Fact. programs. I saw the folder for newer versions and tried those out and it seems to be working... I did some other stuff before, but not sure exactly what did it...seems like the old Vid. Fact. should have worked as well, but I'm off the bleeding edge now! Wooowhooo! Thanks for your help and suggestions! Much appreciated...I will have more questions later...hopefully not this blatantly foolish.