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Naked blondes here
We’ll last time I posted the question no one responded so perhaps this title will get attention.
I’m trying to capture some ordinary DV footage. When capturing it looks like everything is going fine. But when the footage is played back the problem becomes evident. FCP will only capture about 20 seconds of footage and then it freezes the video and jumps ahead a few seconds. I’ve tried firewire drives and faster SATA drives. I’ve trashed preferences and reloaded the FCP program. Nothing seems to correct the problem. Ideas?
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try a new FW cable.
try a different deck/camera.
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See if this helps
https://www.fcpbook.com/Video10.html
Also it might help to answer these generic questions:
Be as exact as you can. What settings are on the media? What settings are you using in Final Cut? What computer are you using? What drives? What camera or deck? How’s everything connected? What version of the application are you using, and what version of the OS and of QT are you using?
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs
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WE did try a new camera and deck and had the same problems. I’ll try the Firewire cable in just a moment.
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Thanks a bunch I’ll try those suggestions within the next hour.
Richard Martz
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This happened to me once, and it was because the import settings weren’t set to dv/ntsc. It was trying to ingest one format and convert to another at the same time.
Maybe this helps.
–> Mark
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Mark Morache
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The device settings are DV NTSC 48 KHz.
Richard Martz
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[Richard Martz] “I’m trying to capture some ordinary DV footage.”
Are you sure it’s “normal DV”? Consumer cameras that record in extended play can cause similar problems if played back in a pro deck. If that is the case you will need a consumer camera with the “extended” feature.
and ohh, is there a link to the blondes?……. (actually don’t worry about that, google would undoubtably turn them up along with 500,000 others!)
“everything is broken”
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WE actually recorded on an HVRZ1U. THE downconverted and are capturing DV footage using the Down Convert feature. WE have changed the decks out so that has been eliminated as a source of teh error.
Richard Martz
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We’re getting dribbles of information.
Please answer these questions:
Be as exact as you can. What settings are on the media? What settings are you using in Final Cut? What computer are you using? What drives? What camera or deck? How’s everything connected? What version of the application are you using, and what version of the OS and of QT are you using?
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs
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Does capture work if you grab it as native HDV? I’d rather downconvert in FCP anyway, the Sonys are not doing the greatest job there.
Regards,
Uli
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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