after taking my computer to a shop to sort out all my audio problems, i now have a video problem. I changed some of the settings to stop dropping frames in capture, god knows what has happened but now i can't get a picture on my capture screen let alone audio, which i could in the past.

I find the project settings window extremely confusing. If some body could just tell me the best set up for analogue capture then i should be on my way. Should it be DV PAL, PAL for WINDOWS....?etc

Then when i try and customise these settings to stop dropped frames, there seems to be conflictions in the project settings window which i can't resolve. I'm not sure which compressor i should use-capture settings say n/a, but project settings say cinepak codec by radius-I can't change the capture to match the project settings. Not sure which frame rate to use-in our television company we always use 24fps. And finally the quality needs to be dropped to stop the dropping of frames-I can change the quality setting in projects setting, but again not in capture.

Please help me, any ideas would be greatly appreciated as i am on a very tight deadline!!!

Many thanks for reading this, Mike

SYSTEM:

Windows XP 2002
Intel Pentium 4 CPU-2.8GHZ
256 MB RAM
AverDVD EZMaker WDM Capture card

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