What is commonly associated with dropped video frames during capture?

• A. Incorrectly configured storage drive settings
• B. Overexposure
• C. Underexposure
• D. Low frame rate

Answer: (A)

Dropped video frames during capture happen when the system can’t write the incoming video data quickly enough. The capture device is producing a continuous stream of frames that must be written to storage in real time. If the storage subsystem isn’t set up for sustained, high-speed writes—such as using a slow hard drive, a drive that’s nearly full, USB/Thunderbolt settings that limit bandwidth, or RAID configurations that add overhead—the write queue fills and frames get skipped to keep the stream going. That storage bottleneck is the common link to dropped frames.

Overexposure or underexposure affect brightness and image quality, not the ability to write frames. A low frame rate changes how many frames are produced per second, but dropped frames are about not keeping up with the data flow due to storage bandwidth limits.