Dvgate application notes, Recording images to a digital video device, Adjusting image resolution – Sony PCG-R505GCK User Manual
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DVgate Application Notes
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Recording images to a digital video device
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Recording images to a digital video device
If your system displays the message, “Failed to record to DV deck, please check 
deck’s power status, cable connection…,” while you are recording images to a 
digital video device using DVgate software, close all open programs, and restart 
your computer. Frequent recording of images to a digital video device while 
using DVgate may cause this situation to occur.
For more information on DVgate software, see the DVgate online help.
Adjusting image resolution
If the images on the computer screen (LCD) do not display smoothly, the 
resolution may not be set correctly. 
To check the resolution
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From the DVgate Motion-Monitor window, click Setup.
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From the shortcut menu, point to Settings, and then select Low Resolution. 
The settings you change in this menu affect the images in the monitor 
window only. Movie data imported to your hard drive and images recorded 
to DV devices will not be affected.
Saving to your hard disk drive
In order to improve the performance of your computer’s DVgate™ motion 
software, the hard disk drive on your computer has been formatted with two 
partitions, C and D. The C partition holds 40 percent and the D partition holds 60 
percent of the entire drive capacity. DVgate software saves files to the D 
partition. This prevents large video capture from consuming the available space 
on your C partition. To maintain optimum performance of DVgate, you should 
defragment or format the D partition regularly.