• Avid Media Composer

  Online recapture issues, please help!

  Posted by Hunter Stevens on June 4, 2007 at 12:03 am

  I cut a feature film in Avid Xpress Pro v5.6.4 with regular Mojo on Windows XP. It was shot on JVC HD110, 720/24p, captured via the ProHD deck BR-HD50U, component and RS422, letting the deck downcovert to NTSC into a 30i project at dv25 rez. Now I am going back to online the project at 1:1, have 2 issues. I decomposed the timeline, and recapture footage with the following problems…

  1. Once recaptured, every shot’s starting timecode is correct as edited, however, the picture is anywhere from 0, 1 or 2 frames off visually from the original dv25 captured footage that I cut it with. I can’t figure out a pattern, I updated the deck’s firmware to the latest.

  2. On every tape, several times it will stop capturing and say that it’s lost communication with the deck. I have to go into deck config, delete the deck, add the deck back then hit check deck and it re-recognizes the deck, then I continue as normal (capturing shots that are off by 1-2 frames!).

  Sucks because I just can’t let it sit and run thru a big tape if it’s a hundred shots on it, I gotta keep an eye on it in case it stops. And sucks even worse that I might have to go through all of the 2000+ shots in the movie and slip them by 1-2 frames to line them up.

  Any insight or ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

  Bouke Vahl replied 18 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Bouke Vahl

  June 4, 2007 at 4:30 pm

  Problem 1.
  This is a known bug. I suspect you’ve ingested entire tapes with TC breaks, AVID does not see 1 frame TC breaks. So yes, now you’re onlining you’re facing the trouble…
  (it’s not that bad, put the offline on top and make a wipe with the fresh video, and manually align the fresh shots. Takes an hour or so if you have a couple of hundred shots. (assuming you’re only redigging video)

  Problem 2
  I’ve only seen this when capturing sequences (my pre-decompose time)
  If you use 422, i’ve never seen it. Check cabling (hardware) for bugs.
  Otherwise, get a trainee cause you’re in for a lot of work…

  hth

  Bouke

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