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Capture anomaly
I had this same problem last week and worked around it, but it’s happening again so I’d like to find out what’s up. I’m capturing 720p/59.94 from a 1200 deck. Capture seems to work fine and I can see the clip as it’s being captured. But then when I exit log-and-capture and try to play the clip, the clip is black. I can see t.c. and audio but no video. Other clips I captured a few weeks ago play back fine. The weird thing is that the media file plays fine in Quicktime and if I drag it to the FCP browser window, it also plays fine. That’s my workaround, but I’m wondering why this is happening in the first place. There has to be a simple explanation.
Thanks –Fred
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The typical fix for any strange behavior is to trash your preferences. Try that and see if it helps.
Use this app to do it:
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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[Fred Grossberg] “I had this same problem last week and worked around it, but it’s happening again so I’d like to find out what’s up. I’m capturing 720p/59.94 from a 1200 deck. Capture seems to work fine and I can see the clip as it’s being captured. But then when I exit log-and-capture and try to play the clip, the clip is black. I can see t.c. and audio but no video.”
Did you capture HD-SDI? If so, there have been issues in the past with HD-SDI captures and 720p with FCP, we’ve seen it here. Just for grins, try selecting one of your clips and doing a “Reconnect Media” and reconnect to the clip on the hard drive. See if this brings the audio / video back. If that works do a Reconnect media on everything.
We had similar issues in the past and simply reconnecting all the media after it was captured solved it.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Hi Walter. Yes, I captured HD-SDI. I just tried the Reconnect Media trick and it didn’t work: I got an error message saying the clip didn’t have the proper content. And yet all I have to do is drag the QT file into the browser and it’s fine.
BTW these tapes originated in an HDX900 and are being played back on a 1200 deck. But they play back fine from the deck.
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[Fred Grossberg] “BTW these tapes originated in an HDX900 and are being played back on a 1200 deck. But they play back fine from the deck.”
That doesn’t matter, we’re doing a bunch of shows with the HDX as well and it’s not an issue. Though we did just sell our 1200A and upgraded to a 1400, we cut an entire HDX-900 documentary through a 1200A.
Really don’t know what to tell you other than check your capture presets and make sure you didn’t change anything. Haven’t had any issues here other than the Reconnect Media thing I mentioned.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Shane: I want to try that FCP Rescue app. Unfortunately my G5 isn’t online, so I’ve had to download it to a USB stick and then I will copy it onto the G5. Two elementary questions. First, how do I actually install the app on the G5? Second, should I keep a record of my old prefs or does the app do that for me?
Sorry to bother you. Thanks. Fred -
[Fred Grossberg] “First, how do I actually install the app on the G5?”
It should show up as a ZIP file…just unzip it and it is there. Drop it in your applications folder. Open it, and hit TRASH.
[Fred Grossberg] “Second, should I keep a record of my old prefs or does the app do that for me?”
It will, yes, but since these are corrupt, you don’t want to save them. BUT…in case they aren’t and this doesn’t work, you can hit BACKUP and then RESTORE if you need.
Simple app…3 buttons.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net
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