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Capturing from a Z1E problem please Help
Hi
I’ve had a big problem capturing from the Z1. Basically FCP keeps seeing timecode breaks.
Initially I logged to capture a tape. FCP captured but broke the clip up into chunks of a random length. It also left gaps between them. So it didn’t actually capture everything.
Then it kept finding timecode breaks and aborting the capture (when I used capture now).
I think that what it’s doing is seeing breaks in the timecode whenever the camera had been switched off (during the shoot). This seems wierd to me.
The even stranger thing is that I shot some stuff of ‘used’ tape – so timecode would have been pre-striped – but it still seems to stop at points at which the camera was stopped between shots.
Note: the tape was NOT ejected between shots (I know this resets the timecode).
Why is it doing this, and is there any setting that I can change to stop this happening??
Thanks for your help in advance,
Robin
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4 Replies
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Robin,
Two things to think about…
1. HDV is not like the other tape formats you’re used to, in that it does not have individual video frames, each with its own timecode stamp. Instead, HDV uses the stored data of approximately 15-frames, that is stored as a data chunk, and from that digital information, frames must be decoded, virtually on the fly.
2. Because of the calculations that are necessary each time the camera starts and stops, Apple was forced to create new clips at every code break in the first go around of FCP. So, getting the camera up to speed and having a few seconds of role-in time is critical. Supposedly, Apple has either done something about this already, or will be doing somthing soon.
Hope this helps…
DRW
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I’ve had this problem before but after upgrading to latest software to FCP 5 it will only create new clip when there was real camera start/stop break on the tape which is fine.
Since then it works very well.Mariusz
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I’m glad you confirmed that — I had heard that but not had it validated.
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I don’t mind it breaking the footage up into separate chunks, what I can’t live with is a. it missing out chunks and b. It stopping capturing and saying timecode error.
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