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Black Horizontal Bars Across Log and Capture Footage
Hi All,
I’m having some trouble with my Log and Capture window in Final Cut Pro 3. I am using a basic DV tape deck (which was working fine just yesterday and is fully hooked up via firewire), and a mini DV tape. In the Log and Capture window, my footage displays with thick, black bars running horizontally across the frame (about five of them). They appear over every tape that I try to put in right now. My capture presets are all set to DV NTSC, and I haven’t changed any settings since the tape deck was working fine just yesterday.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
~Elizabeth -
7 Replies
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Hi Elizabeth,
By any chance are you on Snow leopard, and you haven’t QT 7 installed?
If so, do it.
QT 7 is on the SL Installation Disk > Extras.
Rafael -
I’m running Mac OS X and I have both Quicktime 7 and Quicktime Pro 10 installed. The funny thing is, while I was waiting for a thread reply, it started working and then stopped again. It’s done this in the past, and it seems totally spontaneous. Any ideas what might cause the spontaneity of the problem?
~Elizabeth
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Are you setting up your project differently? If you setup a project with a specific resolution and then import footage that doesn’t match that it will add those bars.
It is adding them to compensate for the aspect ratio.
What camera are you using, how are you ingesting it (Firewire?) and what project settings are you using?
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Perhaps dirty heads on the DV deck. Have you run a head cleaning tape through it?
Neal Broffman
One Production Place, Atlanta, GA
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If you have a head cleaning tape, run it through the deck. Sounds like you might have dirty heads.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“Foul Water, Fiery Serpent” Winner, Best Documentary, LA Reel Film Festival.
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Try cleaning the heads on your deck
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Black bars like that are usually something gumming up the heads. Old tape for example will do this a lot
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