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Anamorphic capture problems
Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Recently (very recently) upgraded from FCE 2.0.3 to FCP 5.1.1 and am experiencing problems transitioning to a 16:9 workflow. First problem on first project; here’s the setup:
Recorded footage on a Sony FX-1 in 16:9 (DV wide). Capturing into FCP 5.1.1, audio/video settings for both sequence and capture presets are DV NTSC 48 kHz Anamorphic. When capturing the footage from the camera, the computer’s cooling fan revs up and after capturing EXACTLY 3 seconds of footage, the program aborts capture with this message: “Capture encountered a problem reading the data on your source tape. This could be due to a problem with the tape. Capture has been aborted and your clip has been saved.”
This doesn’t happen when capturing non-anamorphic footage; I’ve tried multiple tapes and get the same thing. Any ideas, thoughts or suggestions, anyone? Thanks!
M. Gibson
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2 Replies
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First of all, try trashing the FCP preference files. Here’s a link to an article on how to do this properly and why you need to do it occasionally:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
You can also get a free program that does this job for you. Just Google: FCP Rescue.
Since I’m not really sure if there’s another reason why you can capture 4:3 footage and not 16:9 footage with the same setup here’s a work around: you can try capturing your widescreen footage using the DV NTSC 48Khz (non-anamorphic) preset, since you say that’s working for you. Try a 1 or 2 min. test piece. Select your newly captured piece in FCP’s browser window, navigate to the anamorphic column and put in a checkmark. This tells FCP that your footage is not 4:3 but is actually 16:9. Your video clip should now expand to the widescreen format.
And make sure you use batch capture with in and out points instead of capture now. Much more reliable.
– Don
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The “problem” has been fixed, and as is typical, was a problem of my own doing. Capture settings were set to DV PAL 48 kHz anamorphic, not DV NTSC kHz anamorphic. Oops!! Thanks though.
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