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breaks in Hi8 tape?
I posted recently about problems importing old Hi8 tapes through a digital 8 camcorder to my powerbook through FCP. The camera converts the analog signal to digital,and is connected to the computer with firewire.
My problem is that when I import, the video occasionally freezes on a frame and resumes after a few seconds. The audio continues throughout seamlessly. During playback, the freeze frames persist.
On multiple tries, the breaks seem to happen at different places in the tape. The video plays back perfectly on the camera, so I assume there is something wrong in the transfer.
I even tried connecting the camera to a dvd recorder and recording the video… it works perfectly with no breaks.
So what is it with my final cut pro settings that could be causing this to happen?
Someone earlier suggested I get a PCMCIA card firewire adapter, and hook it up to an external drive to take the load off of my computer during import. I tried this, and the same problem occurs.
I have tried everything I can think of and am truly stuck. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions anyone may have.
Thank you.
Ben
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15 Replies
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it could be the cable
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I thought maybe it could be, but I tried two separate cables (firewire 400 and firewire 800) and same result…
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it could be the firewire connection on the camera.
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One more thought…
I read up on importing analog video to FCP and somewhere the manual mentioned the necessity to place a limit on the data transfer rate to avoid dropped frames?
I assume this is not the case in my situation because the video camera essentially is acting as a converter from analog to digital, so the signal being captured is actually digital – requiring no adjustment to the data rate limit?
Just cant figure this out…
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maybe… but I connected the camera to the dvd recorder using the same firewire connection on the camera and everything recorded perfectly…
thanks for your suggestions…
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[benjaminpeter] “maybe… but I connected the camera to the dvd recorder using the same firewire connection on the camera and everything recorded perfectly…”
You didn’t say this before.
are you capturing to your internal hard drive, if not what type of drive are you using.
Never capture to the same drive that your OS is on that is asking that one drive to do to much at one time. If you are capturing to an external drive then DO not use USB use firewire, preferably a separate firewire bus on the computer, then the one the camera is connected to.
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I initially tried capturing to the internal drive (Ive never had any capturing problems with this setup before with regular dv tape)
Then I tried using a seagate external hard drive, connected by firewire to a separate firewire bus. Camera is then hooked straight into the built in firewire input in the computer.
same results..??
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One more piece of info..
Under capture settings I had to change the device control to ‘non controllable device’ because capture would not work at all otherwise.
Also, I have my capture/input settings still at ‘DV NTSC 48kHz’ – havent tweeked that one at all.
Does this sound like the right settings for capturing in this situation?
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the setup sounds right try trashing your fcp preference files
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how and why should I trash the preference files if the settings seem ok?
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