First some background. I have an HP Pavilion DV7 notebook computer with an AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core 2GHz processor with 4GB memory and a 64 bit operating system. I am trying to capture video from a Canon DV camcorder using firewire.
I try use Power Director 9 software to capture my video onto the hard drive and throughout the process the video will stop at times or the sound has considerable static or both. I can monitor my CPU usage and when it goes above 90% I start having these problems. I have tried to eliminate all the processes I think might be a problem but it doesn't seem to help. I don't run any software at the time except PD9. I tried doing this while not on the internet hoping that every little bit helps. The biggest CPU user, except for system processes, is PD. CPU usage is never constant but jumps up and down and I try to watch CPU usage using Task Manager to see what I can eliminate. I also use msconfig.exe to eliminate startup processes I don't think I will need but I don't want to go too far. I avoid any items that have SYSTEM as a user name. Are there any suggestions out there as to what I should do? Is my computer powerful enough? All my research in this seems to point out that this is a very common problem but hardly anyone has any definitive answers. There are suggestions about what to remove but I've never read one that was all inclusive and no one seems to say "Thanks, that solved the problem" Given all the comments I've read on this subject I would think CyberLink would address this.