Apple acknowledges 720p capture bug (subclips) in FCP 5

[Walter Biscardi]

[Oliver Busch] “Some workarounds on that webpage.
Seems it has to do with serial device control.”

Actually no it doesn’t. I run my 1200A via Firewire control all the time since I leave my Sony J3 deck hooked up via RS-422 Control. I get the issue with every single clip captured with Firewire control. Not really sure where they got the idea it was a Serial Control issue.

This issue affects ALL frame rates via HD-SDI, not just 59.94.

Also, this issue doesn’t solve the problem of re-capturing where FCP won’t re-connect to media correctly in the event you have to bring back a project later.

Really the article just looks like a re-hashing of information from the Cow Forums.

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[Oliver Busch]

[Walter Biscardi] “This issue affects ALL frame rates via HD-SDI, not just 59.94.”

On the other hand, on the Kona forum you wrote about 720p25 capture working correctly.
Was that captured with RS-422 deck control?

Regards, Oliver
Fortunately I live in PAL land here.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Oliver Busch] “Was that captured with RS-422 deck control?”

Nope, Firewire. 25 is the ONLY frame rate that works correctly, go figure.

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[Jb]

Came across this issue with a friend’s session who had only 40 master clips and an existing 2 minute timeline (edit) in progress.

It worked! And got him through this crazy bug that even Apple Pro Support couldn’t help solve.

Although this may not work for everyone’s situation, it helped us solve our problem and can hopefully help others that are in a similar situation.

Here’s what we did:

1) Took down/screen captured the bin info that contained all the master clips’ names and timecodes (“Media Start” column).

2) Opened the clips in Quicktime (at the finder level) and deleted the timecode track.

3) Reconnected the clips in FCPro (eventhough the timecode was then reset to 00:00:00:00).

4) Modified/Reset the starting timecode of each master clip back to the original timecode (based on the info from step1).

I hope this helps others the way it helped us.

Good luck,

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