| Windows 98, Windows Me |
Windows 2000 Pro, Windows XP |
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Click Start, Settings, and Control Panel.
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Double-click the System icon.
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Click the Device Manager tab, then double-click Disk drives.
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Double-click the IDE DISK / hard drive(s) listed, then the Settings tab.
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Place a check in the box next to DMA. If the DMA box has a checkmark, DMA is already enabled on the hard drive (See Figure 3). |
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Click Start, Settings, then Control Panel.
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Double-click the System icon.
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Select the Hardware tab and click Device Manager.
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From the list of devices, double-click IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers.
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Double-click the controller to which the hard drive is attached (usually the ?Primary IDE Channel?).
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Select the Advanced Settings tab.
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Next to Transfer Mode, select DMA if available from the drop-down menu.
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If DMA if available is selected, then DMA is already being used (See Figure 4). |
If that's all fine and dandy, check to make sure you don't have a conflict with another card in your PC.
In your device manager, check to see if you have a yellow exclamation mark over any of the devices in your computer. If you see a yellow exclamation mark over a device in your systems, you'll need to resolve the conflict before you'll be able to capture video.
Issues like this are usually caused by a poorly designed driver conflicting with your capture card. Try to contact the manufacturer, some of them already have improved capture-drivers in development that you can download and install to fix the problem.
A few things to try in the meantime:
- If you have an Antivirus checker like Norton disable it. Antivirus software can be a pain to Non linear editing software.
- Reformat your HD.
- Load the drivers for your video card before installing any software or connecting your camcorder.
- Download all the updates for your computer.
- Update the BIOS on the mother board.
- Try a test capture using the WinDV capture utility
