Hi Eric,
What you describe indicates a problem in your software.
Choosing the incorrect format will simply waste the time taken to save in
that format, it will not cause your machine to freeze.
The format 16:9 or 4:3 is not referenced during the capture to your hard
drive, only when you save the result of your editing to a finished file
does that setting come into play.
While everything else is working properly for you I suppose leave well
alone, but I suspect that whatever the problem is, it will jump up and bite
you sooner or later.
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