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Is there a trick to avoid the “abortion on drop frame” capturing from VHS ?
I was wondering if anyone knows a trick to avoid the “abort on drop frame” function when there is a need to capture video from a VHS tape. I know if I deselect the function on preferences, I will get a non synced material … but it is painfull ( I lost 1 and 1/2 hour last night ) when you loose hours of captured material if FCP finds a single drop frame just when you are about to finish the capture …..
Thanks to you all in advance.
MacBook Pro 17″
2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
(2) External HD LaCieMac (400/800 FW and USB)with 500GB -(2) USB External HD Western Digital (in cases) with 750GB
OS X 10.5.7
Final Cut Studio 2 -
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Get rid of those USB drives. Apple doesn’t support them for video applications.
What’s doing the converting? Are there video breaks in the VHS tape?
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
I’m using Canopus ADVC-300 with my MacBook Pro and a 800 firewire External LaCie
MacBook Pro 17″
2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
(2) External HD LaCieMac (400/800 FW and USB)with 500GB -(2) USB External HD Western Digital (in cases) with 750GB
OS X 10.5.7
Final Cut Studio 2 -
Did you disconnect the USB drives? Are there video breaks in the VHS?
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
On USB ports are Keyboard and mouse. It is an old VHS tape (media from the last century) to became a DVD of memories.
MacBook Pro 17″
2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
(2) External HD LaCieMac (400/800 FW and USB)with 500GB -(2) USB External HD Western Digital (in cases) with 750GB
OS X 10.5.7
Final Cut Studio 2 -
There *is* I seem to recall, a check box somewhere in preferences I think that selects if it should abort or continue thru a time code break. But I don’t have the app in front of me as I write this, sorry.
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Dub the VHS to a DV tape, then capture the DV tape.
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Using the ADC with a FW drive may cause problems. We use an ADC to play video with Pro Tools and if another FW device is connected at the same time as the ADC, the Mac becomes very unhappy.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 2 (FCP 6.0.5, Comp 3.0.5, DVDSP 4.2.1, Color 1.0.3)Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN
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Do you think that using my system HD (as a scratch disk) instead of the external one would help ?
MacBook Pro 17″
2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
(2) External HD LaCieMac (400/800 FW and USB)with 500GB -(2) USB External HD Western Digital (in cases) with 750GB
OS X 10.5.7
Final Cut Studio 2 -
That’s not advised. Your OS is constantly “checking” with your system disk and those “interruptions” mess with video (dropped frames, etc.) that must be played out (or captured) in realtime.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 2 (FCP 6.0.5, Comp 3.0.5, DVDSP 4.2.1, Color 1.0.3)Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN
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Freddy I have come up against the same problem, I was wondering if you managed to find a solution?
Cheers
Sean
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