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Capture Problem with FCP 5.1.4
All of a sudden I am having trouble capturing from DV tape to FCP 5.1.4. I have a Mac Pro 2.66 and capturing to a La Cie 7200rpm external firewire drive. Everything was working fine with this system till just a few days ago. Seems to be a frame drop problem. During the first few minutes of capture you can see the image freeze up for a few seconds and then continue. Most of the time the clip fails to save, but if it does there are several seconds of missing footage and audio is way out of sync.
By the way, I have successfully captured to my G4 laptop with the same tape, same deck and to the same drive.
Can anyone HELP ME!!
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How big is the external HD? is journaled? How full is the HD? It got many files? do you clean the directories?
Rafael -
It is a brand new 500 G drive, but the problem happens with my other external drives as well.
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Have you added any new firewire devices to your configuration? You may be having somekind of a firewire bandwidth conflict betwene the camera and the drive. At times I have to turn off my firewire audio interface in order to capture. You may try capturing to an internal drive and transfering to external afterwards. Or try a second firewire card for each device. I think all the stock firewire ports are on the same bus, but Im not sure. Firewire cards are pretty cheap.
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thanks.
I have tried to dig to my internal drive and there is still a problem. Any other ideas? -
I have also had issue when using Belkin firewire cables, 2 different cables with the same results. I now avoid Belkin at all costs. The cables never captured reliably from day one, but not all of a sudden like your issue. It wouldnt hurt to try a new cable, as they are cheap.
Whenever having any type of weird symptoms on a mac, Repair Disc Permissions. You can do it with Disc Utility but I like to use Onyx (a freeware maintenance app available for download from apple’s website). It allows me to automate all my maintenance scripts, optimize the system and repair permissions in one step. Whenever performing any type of maintenance its a good idea to restart into Safe Boot mode first by holding down the shift key until the blue screen appears. Always do a standard restart when finished as well.
When troubleshooting always try the simple, free or inexpensive things first.
If none of these work you might try capturing on a friends computer to eliminate the camera and or tape as the cause and then maybe another firewire card.
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