| I'm not sure what made the difference but my capturing of 3 different tapes, plus live capture of the morning service, went fine this week. I used the same USB hard drive (partitioned) that I had in the past but I cleared the one partition of everything. Also, I did upgrade the iMac's RAM to from 1GB to 4GB. I lean more towards the solution being just clearing out the USB drive since I had experienced dropped frames on a Mac Pro with 4GB of RAM using the same drive.
While I am thinking of USB scratch disks, any comments on using a USB flash drive as a scratch disk? With the price of flash drives coming down, along with their small size compared to the 500GB USB drive I am using now, I had considered giving that a try. The smaller drive would mostly be a convenience factor at this time
Thanks again for your help. It is great to get so much input. |