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HDV St-St-Stutter
I just installed Final Cut 5 & upgraded to 5.02 on a Dual 2ghz G5 with 8gb DDR SDRAM. I’m using a blackmagic card which works fine with 5 BUT when i capture HDV and try and play it doesn’t play smoothly at all it just stutters and jerks or just has a still frame and plays audio. In QT the clip plays perfectly. When i try to play the clip in the viewer and not out through the blackmagic card it does the same thing In QT the clip plays perfectly. Is there a special card needed or a setting i am just not doing right?
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What kind of harddrive are you capturing to?
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
Now editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
G5 Dual 2.0, AJA Kona 2, Medea FCR2X
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Just an external Lacie consumer drive. The raid we have does not show up when the HDV camera is connected. is there a connection?
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Ah ha… I know your problem. Simple. LaCie external hard drives are not fast enough for HDV, nor are they going to ever be unless its one the new RAID systems they offer. Now, your RAID… It must be firewire, right. If so, then you need to purchase another firewire card for that. I have my systems with the internal system firewire and a firewire card installed. I use the PCi card for the AJA IO and the internal for DV or HDV control and capture to my SATA drive RAID. Give that a shot.
Let me say that I really suggest that you invest in a SATA RAID or something other than firewire if you plan to stick with HDV. It will be much more relialible. Not to say thay firewire is no good, just not in this case.
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Hi,
Actually any LaCie Firewire 800 drive (d2/Big Disk/Bigger Disk) can handle HDV.The bit rate is similar to DV:
https://www.geocities.com/mammacow3/HDVSpec.htmHope this helps.
Mat
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Hey thanks for the suggestion. I actually was able to use my raid if i start the G5 without the HDV camera plugged in. Even after capturing on the RAID and then playing on the Raid i still am having stutter and dropped frame issues it must be one of the settings. So basically i am going to offline in DV then recap via media manager in HDV then convert to 10Bit any ideas???
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[Wayne Carey] “Ah ha… I know your problem. Simple. LaCie external hard drives are not fast enough for HDV, nor are they going to ever be unless its one the new RAID systems they offer.”
No, actually that’s completely wrong information. LaCie external harddrives are handling DVCPro HD here which is a higher data throughput rate than HDV. It should be a Firewire 800 drive. But to say that LaCie external hard drives cannot handle HDV is completely false.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
Now editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
G5 Dual 2.0, AJA Kona 2, Medea FCR2X
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I’m sorry, but I didn’t clarify myself very well. What I meant was that older LaCie drives like most people have don’t handle DV very well at all. I can tell you from experience that is a true statement. Now, all of LaCie’s newer drives have no problem at all and I will continue to use them in the future. But for main media drives, nothing beats out a good RAID of some sort. ONLY firewire 800 drives are capable of DVCPRO HD video and HDV. BUt like I said, a drive that’s about three years old is not going to handle it very well, if at all. I have several of the d2 drives and they will just barely handle DV – one to two streams at the max. I always get some stutter from those drives if I edit a long program. Therefore, a good RAID is always best.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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