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CS3, JVC GY-HD100, and 24p
Here’s my problem in a nutshell.
I’m helping out some friends capture some HDV footage from the JVC GY-HD100. The footage was shot in 24p. I am using the 720 30p preset in CS3, since there’s no preset for 720 24p. I am capturing the entire tape (which has about 38 minutes of footage on it). When the capture is done, I hit stop. After I hit stop, Premiere doesn’t prompt me for a file name . . . It just freezes. Why is this happening? I have a dual core processor 4GB of RAM machine running. Any ideas? Thanks.
Aaron
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3 Replies
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Hi Aaron,
I’ve never used the HD100 but I know that mixing frame rates is typically a problem in most NLE’s. I also have had trouble with capturing HDV in CS3’s capture utility. I’ve had better luck with a free program called HDVSPLIT. Google it. It works very well and will split the scenes on your tape if you have any. If you do have scenes and you capture long sections of tape WITHIN premier your long clip will gradually loose sync with the audio!!! You can thank HDV’s long GOP compression scheme for that! Do a test and pull in a few minutes of the 24p stuff from your tape and see what happens!
Good Luck!
Nate -
I have captured hour long HDV tapes (1080i60) with no loss of audio sync.
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Well all I can say is it happened to me. I marked in and out about 10 minutes on an HDV1080 60i tape and let Premier capture it as a whole. In that 10 minutes I had started and stopped the camera about 14 times. But CS3 does NOT split scenes so I got one large 10 minute clip. When I played this clip back the first few minutes were in sync but by about 7 or 8 minutes into the clip the audio was so far off I couldn’t even calculate it. It was several seconds. I then used HDVsplit and recaptured that exact same place on the tape and got 14 unique clips which I imported into Premiere. Each clip was perfectly in sync!
The real issue is the starting and stopping of the camera. If you have a tape with one continuous clip on it then there wouldn’t be a sync issue since there are no start and stops of the camera.
Perhaps someone else out there could enlighten us with exactly why that starting and stopping creates the audio sync issue.
Regards,
Nate
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