• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP 4 Dropped Frame Issue

  Posted by Jumperman06 on June 8, 2007 at 2:46 pm

  I’m trying to log and capture footage onto my iMac G5 Final Cut Pro 4 program –
  I can see the video playback in the LOG AND CAPTURE window, and I see it again when i hit “NOW” to capture the clip – however, between 15-30 seconds later (each time) the following message pops up on my screen:

  “Dropped frames were detected during the last capture attempt”

  This happens every time – I’ve tried playback from my SONY DV Camera as well as my SONY GV-D200 8mm/HI-8 playback deck – same problem on both. No glitches on the tapes –

  Please, how can I solve this issue? – is there a setting I need to adjust on Final Cut?

  Thanks!
  Ben

  Jumperman06 replied 18 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  June 8, 2007 at 3:08 pm

  This typically happens when one is capturing to their system drive, either by accident or because they did not know better. Is that what you’re doing?

  David Roth Weiss
  Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
  David Weiss Productions, Inc.
  Los Angeles
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  Ben Insler

  June 8, 2007 at 3:13 pm

  This will also happen if you’re capturing to a drive that is too slow to keep up with the necessary data rate that is required to stream your media for capture. You should be using at least a 7200 RPM 8MB Cache Firewire 400 drive.
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  Jumperman06

  June 8, 2007 at 8:42 pm

  How exactly do I do all that? I’ve also received a message that says my scratch disk is almost full – i guess i’m not as Mac-savvy as I thought – please help – I don’t even know where to adjust the drive for 7200 RPM etc…
  Thanks!
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  Jumperman06

  June 8, 2007 at 8:43 pm

  Yep, I guess I didn’t know better – how can I fix this?

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