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Beta SP> Aja io la >Final cut
I’m getting picture and sound, but it’s out of sync. I’ve tried various capture settings, but no go. Someone just told me that my hard drive might not be fast enough (Mac G4) and I need an array like a Raid, I sure hope that’s not the case. I’ve got the aja hardware installed in FCP, and I’ve been trying the NTSC 8-bit betacam capture, the 10-bit, and a few others, nothing works. Any suggestions? I’m posting this in the FCP forum too, I’m hoping I can get this working tomorrow.
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What drive do you have and what else is connected to your system?
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Shoot, I’m away from the system, I’ll have to look it up tomorrow. Not sure which drive, there is nothing else hooked up to the system.
Lynne Desjardins
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[Lynne Desjardins] “Shoot, I’m away from the system, I’ll have to look it up tomorrow. Not sure which drive, there is nothing else hooked up to the system.”
Do you have a single drive inside your computer for your OS, Applications and Media?
Also, be sure your Playback Offset is set to 0.
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I’ve had this happen before with my Io (using XServe RAID). Usually restarting FCP or a reboot fixes it.
Also try selecting “Abort Capture on Dropped Frames” FCP’s User Preferences. If the capture aborts after a few seconds you’ll know that your drive is not fast enough.
You cannot capture 8 or 10-bit uncompressed on Firewire or Internal Drives.
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You say you were told you need a RAID, which implies that you don’t have one. That would further suggest that you’re trying to capture to a single drive. And, you said you were using 8bit UC (and 10bit, and others). First, I would be amazed if you got uninterupted playback of 8bit UC from a single drive, although a fast SATA drive may allow it, but as soon as you add effects and have more than a single video stream (dissolve or anything else) the single drive won’t cut it. As for the sync issue, that’s the nature of FireWire and the IO. The recent firmware versions have lowered the offset from 7 frames to (maybe) zero, but maybe not. As Walter said, check the frame offset, it may need to be at zero (or maybe a frame or 2). A single drive will handle DV50 much better, and it looks pretty good. I would use that before slinking all the way down to DV just to save yourself from getting an array.
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[Ed Dooley] ” The recent firmware versions have lowered the offset from 7 frames to (maybe) zero, but maybe no”
No, the audio and video still comes out in sync form the io, it’s just not in sync with your computer monitor.
This problem is that her drives aren’t fast enough.
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How could you tell that from her vague post? It may be that she’s watching the video on her computer and it looks out of sync. But, if that’s the case then throw away that part of my suggestion, go with the drive part of the suggestion. 🙂
Ed[Jeremy Garchow] “No, the audio and video still comes out in sync form the io, it’s just not in sync with your computer monitor.
This problem is that her drives aren’t fast enough.
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Hi all, thanks for all the input. It is a dual drive mac G4, I used it for years with a Media 100 system with no problems. This is the first time I’ve tried capturing beta SP via the Aja. It did indeed abort on capture when I first tried it, so I guess I can assume the drive isn’t fast enough. I tell you, this is enough to make me go back to Media 100, where I never had a single problem for years! Can you explain to me why Media 100 was able to capture exactly the same footage with the same drives with no problems, ever? Oh, and I’m capturing to an external LaCie bigger disc extreme, the same one I’ve been using for years also.
Lynne Desjardins
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Because Media 100 didn’t capture it as Uncompressed. I know the latest versions of M100 did do UC, but when I used it, the highest data rate was 300. If you use the DV50 codec, you’ll be able to use a single drive, and it looks pretty good too.
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Ed, I accidently used the DV50 codec when I captured some DV footage recently, and it made all the movement choppy. This won’t happen when capturing analog?
Lynne Desjardins
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