Capture in APE 1.0

[marillion]

When i capture the movie from miniDV to premiere elements
it looks jerky and not continous: misses a lot of frames .
even when i export it it's the same.
It's exasperating.
My PC is a
PIV 1.7 GH
512 MB RAM
60GB+80GB Hard Disk
Win XP
It's a question of settings or of hardware?
Please can you help me :(

[Tony A]

This question crops up a lot - there are many far wiser than me on these boards. But the first question is what sort of cable are you using to transfer the video to PC?

[marillion]

I'm using a firewire cable

[Marc Peters]

First step is to ensure you have defragmented your harddrive.

[marillion]

I've tried but the problem still remains
What else can i do ?
Maybe the setting of the software or do i need to improve RAM?
Thanks so much !!