• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Dropping frames while capturing HD CAM

  Posted by Encoding on August 15, 2006 at 2:06 pm

  hello there

  i’m quite a newbie to all this hd stuff so aplogies upfront if i ask something ‘stupid’.

  i’m trying to capture a 15secs clip of an hd cam tape (1080i/50) in fcp.

  here are the settings i’m using:

  Sequence Preset: Blackmagic HDTV 1080i 50 – 10 Bit
  Capture Preset: Blackmagic HDTV 1080i 50 – 10 Bit
  Device Control Preset: Blackmagic HDTV 1080i 50
  Video Playback: Blackmagic HDTV 1080i 25Hz – 10 Bit (1920 x 1080)

  after logging the clip it starts to capture the first few seconds but then i get an error message – to be exact – i’m getting two different kinds of messages.

  locating timecode break – which definitely can’t be as the tape doesn’t have an tc break

  but this message doesn’t even come up all the time – a few times i got the error message about fcp dropping frames while capturing.

  after i got this tc break message i changed the Device Control setting to ‘Non-Controllable Device’ and captured the source ‘live’.

  but even with that i got the ‘Dropping Frames’ error message!

  it captures a few seconds of the clip (which by the way look really nice) but not more than that!

  i have been spending all morning on this trying to solve it but no luck – i just don’t have any clue at all.

  any help is greatly appreciated

  thanks a lot in advance

  fahaad

  Dave Allen replied 19 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Dave Allen

  August 15, 2006 at 5:57 pm

  Are your drives fast enough to sustain 1080i playback and record? You can’t exactly record this to a firewire drive without it choking after a fews seconds.

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