1. Defrag your drive
2. Turn off SMARTDRV on the partition you are capturing to
3. With Adobe Premiere 4.0, allocate a capture file Go to Preferences and select Scratch Disk (we use partition E: for video capture and video clips, which is not cached by SMARTDRV)

   After defining your scratch disk, open a capture window and select CAPTURE FILE. There you are able to select PREALLOCATED FILE. If you select O.K. you will be able to enter the size of this file (we are using 256MB). This file should be generated on a defragmented partition. More consistent rates can be achieved if you turn on "Capture Directly to Memory" in the Recording Options menu. This will tell Premiere to use its own buffer before writing the video stream to the hard drive.

4. Under Control Panel/386 Enhanced "Scheduling" may be set as follows:

   Windows in foreground: 10000 [default 100]
   Windows in background: 1 [default 50]
   [x] exclusive in foreground [default off]

5. Use as small a cache as possible

   Windows typically reserves 1/4 of physical RAM for cache in the virtual memory section of Control Panel/386 Enhanced. Try smaller cache sizes between 2Mb and 128kb depending on your system configuration. Try turning cache off completely.

Checklist:

• Is Smartdrv turned off for the partition you're capturing to?
• Are you sure you are using 32-bit drivers for your HDD's?
• Does the Pentium chipset you have support "Bus Mastering"?
• Have you tried different drive cache sizes?
• Try turning off sound capture - Video for Windows has problem with sound at 640x480 resolutions unless you're using our asynchronous drivers.
• Are you using AV class drives that do not perform thermal recalibration?
• Did you reserve drive space for the capture file? (see above)
• Is your drive speed fast enough? 5400 to 7200 RPM drives give the best performance.

Special Windows 95 section

Also, because video is actually 29.97 frames per second, some machines may work better if you set the frame rate to 29 frames per second instead of 30 frames per second. That three hundredths of a frame per second makes a difference in some places.

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