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Capture issues
Hello,
I’m using FCP 4.0 on an iBookG4 (OSX 10.4.9, 1.42 GHZ, 1G ram).
I have captured before with the same deck, same conditions, onto the same drive in the past.
However, video capture is now freezing certain frames of video (audio continues just fine) and resumes.
The camera shows constant playback, while the computer shows a frozen frame of video.
I have tried swapping decks, swapping firewire cables, rebooting the computer, writing to an external drive and an internal drive…. all to no avail.I’ve racked my brain to figure out what has changed, but can’t figure it out. I’m not running any other programs on the computer during capture.
Any advice is greatly appreciated!!
Thanks,
Annie -
6 Replies
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You upgraded to 10.4.9…that is your issue. 10.4.9 and FCP 4.5 and EARLIER has issues:
https://www.lafcpug.org/phorum/read.php?1,170800,170800#msg-170800
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net -
We are having the same problem but on a G5 System. Like you, it’s like someone threw a swith because we’re doing the same procedures as always and now we’re dropping frames of Video. We can only capture about 30 seconds of A/V before it drops frames. After some research on the net we’ve found that this is becoming a problem for more than just us. It looks as though the culprit is upgrading to Quicktime 7.1.5 for FCP systems 4.5 or younger. We are attempting to re-install an older version of Quicktime now. If anyone else has any suggestions please post it.
SVP
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Thanks, Shane. That would’ve never occured to me. Should I be wary of downgrading my OS? Apple seems to advise against it– saying to delete your disk first before installing?
Thanks,
Anniehttps://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106692
About “Downgrade” installations
You should not reinstall an earlier version of the same software over a later version. These “downgrade” installs may seem to work, but Apple does not test nor recommend downgrade installations in most cases. Some installers prevent downgrade installations. If you need to reinstall an earlier version of Mac OS X, erase your disk first or choose the erase option in the Mac OS X Installer. Be sure to reinstall any software updates after reinstalling the operating system. -
That is what you’ll have to do….erase and install. You can try an ARCHIVE and install, and see if that works. But yeah, going back is a major pain.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net -
that’s what I was afraid of… bummer.
Thanks, again, -Annie -
Hi there,
Hopefully you can help. I’ve got a similar thing happening to me.Here are my Specs:
PowerPC G4 Dual Processor
Final Cut Pro 5.0
Mac OS X Version 10.4.83 Drives:
1. 500G Iomega External Hard-Drive
2. Macintosh Hard-Drive
3. Second Internal Hard-Drive (or so it appears)I recently had to replace my I-Mac G5 with a PowerMac G4 Dual Processor at work. I kept the External Iomega 500 Gig Harddrive and am trying to use it now with the G4.
When i try to capture video onto the External Iomega (which captured tons of video just fine with my G5), it immediately begins this jerky capture, and detects time-code breaks that aren’t really there. It plays back equally as jerky as well (frozen frames jumping to frozen frames once every 2 seconds or so).
When i switch the Capture Scratch disks to the Second Internal Hard-Drive, then it captures just fine. I only have 50 gigs of space on this second internal Hard-drive though, so I’d like to be able to use my Iomega External.
The basic Macintosh Hard-drive and the second internal Hard-drive were both formatted as Journaled before I even laid hands on the computer. The Iomega is not formatted as journaled.
Is this a related probem to the first question? Is there something about journaling or going from one Mac to another with an external drive?
Thanks,
Jill
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