• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Output is not frame accurate on HDCAM-SR or DBC

  Posted by Robert jan De vries on January 8, 2008 at 10:25 pm

  Hi guys,

  We are having a problem that I see quite a few people have, but I haven’t been able to find any solutions online.

  When going to tape from Final Cut, usually in SD NTSC the first edit out is 1 frame off, then when we redo the edit, it goes in frame accurate.

  The real problem is now that we do more and more HD, it seems that the outputs are random, and about 10% of our outputs are 1 frame behind (very annoying if you find this out after a 30 minute offload).

  The equipment we’re using are Mac G5’s with an AJA Kona 2, house reference, Rourke Fiber channel Raids (these gave us the highest and most stable benchmarks) and Sony HDCAM-SR 5000’s.

  Does anybody have any idea how to fix it so unless our raid is full, we will always be able to edit frame accurate (our flame with Kona2 can do it, so it’s not the decks or the kona).

  Thanks

  Jeremy Garchow replied 18 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jeremy Garchow

  January 8, 2008 at 11:17 pm

  Did you calibrate your offset correctly?

  Have you contacted AJA?
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  Robert jan De vries

  January 9, 2008 at 9:31 pm

  I did call AJA and Apple, but they didn’t really have a clue.

  As for the offset, which one? Capture offset (currently at -1.5) or Playback offset (at +00:00:00:01).

  Thanks,

  ‘rJ
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  Jeremy Garchow

  January 9, 2008 at 9:44 pm

  Both. You have to calibrate it correctly though according to your specific setup to see what the offset is. I would explain it all but the FCP manual explains it very well.

  In the FCP 6.0.2 PDF manual it starts on PG 357 (part IV, Chap 26).

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