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Capture Problems!! So interesting!
Hi, I have a bizarre problem with capturing onto FCP 5.1.4 this moring fine then suddenly nothing. We are capturing from a Panasonic DVX100 onto a quad G5 and FCP recognises the DV device etc and even playback is fine, just when i say capture NOW the video tends to stall almost constantly, and this is the same when watching the captured video back. I have tried imovie and it is the same, different cables, same problem, and i changed to the port around the back of my G5 quad, still the same problem. On our duel G5 capturing is no problem, and the settings are all the same. I have taught FCP for years and have never seen this one, even with the million other capture problems so if anyone any suggestions i will be very impressed.
Many thanks, Jonah Maddox. Head of Video. http://www.showmehowtoplay.com -
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I assume you are capturing the video to your hard drive?
Try freeing up some space on the HD.
In order to capture and playback video from a HD in real time,
there must be plenty of free, contiguous space available on the HD. Note that its not only a matter of the amount of free space available, but how quickly the heads can write to the platter. It won’t do to have a fragmented disk where the heads have to skip around alot to read/write the data. The space available has to be physicially close, preferably on the outer portion of platter, where, as the disk spins, the speed is greater, and so more data can be written faster.Does this help?
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