• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Non-Drop Media WARNING ?

  Posted by Alan Langdon on May 4, 2009 at 2:32 pm

  I am running FCP 6.05 on a MacBook Pro Dual Core 2.2 GHZ, 2 GB Ram.

  I keep getting the warning, no matter what tapes I use:
  “WARNING: You are about to capture Non_Drop media from a device currently detecting or configured for Drop Frame media (…)”

  I changed the DV NTSC capture settings to 30 fps (instead of 29.97) but this didn’t help at all. I seem to capture OK, but this warning is worrysome and annoying.

  Any ideas? I seem to get this message a lot when capturing in FCP these days, even on other systems. COuld it be the camera (PD 150)?

  Thanks

  Scott Davis replied 17 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Pale

  May 4, 2009 at 2:45 pm

  [Alan Langdon] “I changed the DV NTSC capture settings to 30 fps (instead of 29.97) but this didn’t help at all.”

  Do not do this. The actual frame rate of both non-drop and drop is 29.97. Only the counting system is different.

  This is a message you get when you try to capture a clip already logged with drop frame timecode and the deck is playing a tape with non drop frame timecode. If this isn’t the case, then what is probably happening is that your camera/deck defaults to non drop frame when no tape is inserted or threaded. What you need to do is first play the tape a few seconds before initiating capture, so that the deck/camera reads some timecode and knows that a drop frame tape is inside it.
  There may also be a menu setting for the default timecode format on the camera/deck, which should also eliminate the problem.
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  Scott Davis

  May 4, 2009 at 5:26 pm

  If I understand you right you loged as NDF; when in fact it is DF. You can change the NDF logs to DF by selecting all clips in the bin, control click on the time in “Media In” column and select “Drop Frame” from the contextual menu.

  Scott Davis
  

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