• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Capturing problem from Sony J-30SDI FCP settings?

  Posted by Tim Berridge on November 27, 2007 at 4:05 pm

  Hi there,

  Im trying to capture footage from Digibeta to Final Cut 6 via firewire but the error message im getting once the clip has gone through the record process is “Final Cut Pro was unable to read the movie file just captured”

  I usually capture from my DSR11 deck and wonder what settings I need to change if any. FCP is picking the J-30SDI up and controlling it without any problem but ‘captured’ clips show in the bin as appearing offline.

  Thanks for any help on this!

  Tim

  Paul Dickin replied 18 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Paul Dickin

  November 27, 2007 at 8:12 pm

  Hi
  I use a J-30SDI with FCP 5.1.4, and it functions just like my DSR-25 and DSR-11 decks – no change to a standard DV project, the J-30 is functionally identical.
  Are the J-30’s menu setting appropriately set?

  One point, the J-30 is sensitive to having several other FW hard drives on its channel, so its best to add a card to the Mac to give it its own channel.

  Also mine fried the front FW400 port on two G5 Macs, even with powering the J-30 down before connecting/disconnecting it, so now I ALWAYS use the rear FW ports, and only connect it switched off, and power it up with the Mac powered down.

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