• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP Newbie: Capture issues

  Posted by Chris Cardno on March 27, 2008 at 2:40 pm

  I’m dumping 11 tapes shot on the HDX900 to a hard drive through FCP 6.0. Here are the tech specs for the gear:

  Deck: Panasonic 1400 deck, coming out firewire
  Laptop: MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz Intel dual, factory specs
  Hard Drive: GRaid2 1TB, coming in Firewire 800

  The DP tells me he shot everything 720p/30 and that’s held true for ten of the eleven tapes. Tape nine, however, is giving me fits. I have just been capturing the tapes in their entirety but this tape gets broken into four separate files. One of these files looks fine, but the TC is off. The other three files are recorded at a different data rate (7.6/sec as opposed to 14.5) and the Vid Rate is showing as 29.97 as opposed to 59.54.

  I’ve got FCP set up in Easy Set-up (newbie, remember, be gentle…) to import DVCProHD 720/30 and that’s been working like a charm. But this one tape, nothing but trouble.

  My theory that the DP switched cameras while shooting, going from SDX to HDX and back again, has been shot down by the DP and he swears he didn’t change frame rates.

  ANY help would be greatly appreciated, especially if it’s in small words. 🙂 Thanks.

  Chris Cardno replied 18 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jeremy Garchow

  March 27, 2008 at 4:11 pm

  [Chris Cardno] “I have just been capturing the tapes in their entirety but this tape gets broken into four separate files. “

  That’s your problem. you are capturing across tc breaks and fcp can’t keep up with removing the pulldown cadence. If you are going to capture this way (which is not the best practice, by the way) you need to at least let FCP find and retrieve the tc breaks. YOu can do this in your user prefs by telling fcp to make a new clip at tc breaks.

  Also, make sure you aren’t capturing any bars and tone from the tape.

  Jeremy
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  Chris Cardno

  March 27, 2008 at 5:26 pm

  Thanks, Jeremy, I appreciate the help. It also seems that the DP DID switch between 30 and 60 while shooting on the same tape — I changed the setup and it’s capturing now. Lesson learned: always fact check what you’re being told…

  I’m exactly 3 days into playing with the system, so logging and capturing is the next thing I’m going to do. This was a bail out for a friend who just needed everything dumped onto a hard drive to meet a requirement from his client.

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