• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  mastering to PAL: audio skippping, no image?

  Posted by Alan Langdon on February 8, 2011 at 2:16 pm

  SYSTEM:
  MacMini 2.4 GHZ, 4 GB RAM, FCP 6.06, DSR-11

  I have a project shot in HD 24 fps.
  I exported a reference QT and brought that into a DV PAL (anamorphic) sequence (settings: 720 x 576, CCIR 601 / DV PAL 5:4, anamorphic, DVCPRO PAL codec). And rendered the timeline, so I can print to tape.

  I am trying to master to miniDV, PAL anamorphic. But when I do so, opting for the PAL switch on the DSR-11, and when I try to play back / capture back (in Log & Capture) what I printed to video in FCP, I hear choppy audio and no image preview is available. I have checked the print to video settings (tried both DV PAL as well as DVCPRO PAL) as well as the capture settings (when trying to watch what I printed), but I can’t figure it out.
  Because I have no PAL monitor, I have no other way to check if the master is correct: the only way I have is to try to view it through Log & Capture, setting the input settings for PAL.

  The DSR-11 is connected FW400 via an external LAcie drive, which is connected to the mac via FW800.

  Any light on this issue?

  Peter Wiggins replied 15 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Peter Wiggins

  February 8, 2011 at 3:02 pm

  I’d check to see if you can layoff some straight DV material to the machine.

  Why dis you go for DVCPRO? You should be using a DV 25fps timeline.

  Peter
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  Alan Langdon

  February 8, 2011 at 3:43 pm

  Thanks for the quick response!
  So… it turns out to be a simple case of an old FW 4pin-6pin cable…
  I switched the cable and all is working fine now, using the DV PAL codec, not the DVCPRO by the way. Thanks!
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  Peter Wiggins

  February 8, 2011 at 4:03 pm

  Glad you got it working 🙂

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