has ANYONE ever had this problem capturing?

[superproduceraj]

I was trying to capture some footage today that was shot in 24p advanced. I was importing to Premiere Pro CS4 widescreen 24PA setting with Adobe. My camera was plugged into the charger and I was using the charger battery to power the camera (as to not waste my battery). Every time I tried capturing this way I had major problems with dropped frames always 3 at a time in varying time increments. As soon as I unplugged from the wall and used ma battery EVERTHING was fine...WEIRD. I never dropped a frame after i unplugged. What would cause that? Was there too much power in the battery extension? Has this happened to anyone else?

[David Jimerson]

Probably fluctuations in the wall power. The converter will smooth out some of it, but it can be a factor.

[andythefilmer]

I personally just use a cheap sony handheld to capture footage to preserve my tape heads. Any MiniDV camera will work.

[David Jimerson]

There's no harm in using a dedicated capture cam; better is a true deck. But you're not gonna murder your DVX by capturing with it. :)