• Blackmagic Design

  Decklink SP + FCP Capture drop on Leopard

  Posted by Yuangen Hsu on July 10, 2008 at 7:30 pm

  Hi,

  We are digitalizing our VHS tapes for future publication,
  we use Decklink SP + FCP6 + Mac (2.8Ghz Quadcorex2) with
  OSX 10.5.2, and internal 1 TB Seagate HDDs (about 75mb/s).

  We often encounter system freeze issue during capture
  (uncompressed 8 bit), so we upgraded our HDD to server
  level (ES2), runs above 100mb/s, yet we still have such
  problem, sometimes twice a day.

  Can anyone tell us how to avoid this problem? Or is it
  something between FCP6 and Leopard?

  BTW, we’ll appreciate if anyone can tell us what effects
  in FCP or what other application shall we use to remove
  noises derive from analog video. We can’t find it in
  common FCP training books.

  Thank you very much.

  Yuangen Hsu replied 17 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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• 

  Kristian Lam

  July 11, 2008 at 3:48 am

  Hi Yuangen,

  Can you describe more about the problem? Are they dropped frames or system freezes? If they are system freezes, how are you able to recover from it? Does it involved restarting your computer?

  regards

  Kristian Lam
  Blackmagic Design
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  Yuangen Hsu

  July 11, 2008 at 2:05 pm

  Thanks, the problem involved is system freeze,
  and most of time we have to restart the computer
  and there’s no way to recover the captured file.
  That’s why it became a problem, after watching the
  tape for more than one hour, then something goes
  wrong and we need to restart the computer and
  redo the capture from the beginning.

  System Os X 10.5.2
  CPU 2.8 Quad core x2
  Memory 6G
  FCP 6

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