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Log and Capture reports timecode break where NONE exists
I’m trying to capture from a miniDV Canon GL2. Worked fine on my G4 set up, now I’m running a macbook Pro 2.53 15 inch, which has the firewire 800. So I have a firewire 400 coming out of the camera into the Seagate (7200 rpm external), and the Seagate is connected to the macbook with an adaptor cable gen Apple part; 400 plug out from the Seagate and 800 plug into the computer.
I have tried both capture now, and batch capture, both do the same: it will capture up to app. 4 seconds of video, the frame slows and stops, audio continues for another few seconds, then it reports a time code break and I have to escape.
There is no timecode break on the tape. This is the second good tape I’ve tried, it runs fine in the camera, AND it runs fine in the log and capture window while playing. ONLY when I actually do a capture does it slow down and stop. In camera, the timecode is fine, no breaks. It was shot last night, so I know it’s not old and dusty. Tape is TDK which I’ve used before successsfully with this camera.
thanks for any ideas. Do I need a diff. cable out from camera, if so, how? the GL2 is set up for the old firewire. I read somewhere else in this forum someone suggested a firewire 400 external is not fast enough for even SDV uncompressed, but that seems ridiculous, I worked with firewire 400 for years before this upgrade to the faster computer/firewire. I would hope I don’t have to throw out all my externals because of this upgrade.
JSC, Boulder
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Your problem is very likely due to looping the firewire output from the camera through the drive. If your 15″ doesn’t have an expresscard slot (I don’t think the current 15″ MBP’s do have it either)i I don’t know what to tell you except it’s time to get away from tape… DV is pretty old now, and shooting a tapeless format would fix you up.
Some firewire drives will allow you to loop through them but it’s a hit and miss proposition I’m afraid. I used to do OK with Weibetech, and G-Tech drives but man, that is so long ago I don’t know about their current products. Might work OK though.
If none of the above is going to work for you, I’d try losing the firewire drive, capturing directly to your startup disk, then use media manager to put the media back on that external for editorial. Then check the copies, and if they are OK, then trash the originals. Canon cameras have never been particularly great at recording timecode signals, and you can search this forum on that… might help to shoot pro tape instead of the cheaper stuff too.
Jerry
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Normally I would not recommend this… But trying to think outside the box…
Many external drives have multiple interfaces… Maybe capture with the drive connected to the USB 2.0 port, then switch it to the Firewire port when you edit.
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