First make sure that you have the most efficient kind of aqusition running.
IMAQ LL Ring Without Timeout is the most efficient continous aquisition scheme I know of.
The you must make sure that your conversion and filetering code is efficient. As far as conversion is concerned make sure and use the extract color plane VI and extract the luminance plane. This is the fastest way to do color to gray scale. You can play around with Vision Builder and the Script>>Performace Meter Option until you get a filtering script which is faster than your frame rate.
Hopoe this help,
Amaury Rolin
NI Applic
ations Engineer