• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  ETT dropping frames

  Posted by Michael Sacci on February 17, 2007 at 7:21 pm

  Does anyone know how to avoid getting dropped frame stoppage and alerts when doing ETT. I have to use a Dbeta deck off site so I put together a system that I though was fast enough to handle this without any issues.

  MBP 2.16Ghz Core Duo – 2GB of RAM
  FCP 5.1.2 (and now .3)
  (2) Sata II drives striped together and Sonnet’s Tempo SATA Express 34 for the video files
  AJA Io to the deck via SDI

  The other day it stop about 4 times of each of a couple 60+ ETT. The only that made it bearable was the fact I had start just a little back from where it stopped and not have to reprint the entire tape.

  Any thoughts.

  Michael Sacci replied 19 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Chris Tompkins

  February 17, 2007 at 8:03 pm

  I just disable this feature in the settings.
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  Anders Haavie

  February 17, 2007 at 8:50 pm

  Try audio mixdown before mastering. Might make it work a bit better. We use an old 2×2 g5 as a masteringsuite to our digibeta. Works ok. What codec are you using ? Maybe you could try speedtest on the disk (decklink has one.. guess Aja has one too)
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  Michael Sacci

  February 18, 2007 at 9:16 pm

  Chris – not sure ignoring dropped frames is the best way to deliver a master to a client.

  Anders – I use 10-Bit Uncompressed and DVCPro50, had more trouble with the 50. Timelines are clean single streams of video and audio, no edits or filters (video is a self-contained ref movie.

  I will do a drive speed test tomorrow.

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