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capture probs w/ Seagate ext drive
When I try and set my scratch disc in FCPHD w/ my seagate 300 GB external HD
and I set it, it just gives me the ‘spinning wheel of death’ and I have to force quit.
I tried firewire and firewire basic for my devise control still no luck.
Anybody got any thoughts on this?
Thanks,Nick -
7 Replies
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is it formatted as a journaled drive? if so, you dont want that.
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IS this eSATA, Firewire 400, 800, SCSI?
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Are you actually logging the footage? Or are you trying to use “Capture Now”? It sounds like you’re trying to do the latter. If you’re dealing with timecoded material, you should always, always, always log your tapes before you capture! If you want to capture whole tape rolls, just log a single in at the head of the tape & an out at the tail of the tape. The few minutes that will take you can save you hours of headaches later. BTW, I regularly do this to capture tapes up to 3 hours long. If the TC on the tape is clean, it will work quite well.
Arnie
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thats funny, cause ive had more issues with batch capture than capture now in my life…..strange, i always just capture now and then subclip if needed….
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Have you ever had to recapture from your Captured Now media, ben? In my experience, that’s where most of the nasty issues rear their ugly heads. If you’ve been fortunate to not have had to recapture, then I can see where you might not see as many problems.
debe
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i have recaptured one project, about 10 hours woth of material, no problems…
about 90% of my work is from minidv tapes, and those tapes just get insane amounts of messed up timecodes, so batch capture is usually a big hassle for me. especially since i mostly work in documentary, batch capture is great for shots that are slated, etc, but for documentary, i find its easier just to get the footage in there, minus headaches
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I can see that…
If you ever have to recapture again, you might find a tape or two that has timecode that restarts on the miniDV can royally mess you up. Going back to zero is a huge PITA.
Depending on how you Capture Now, you could also get faux timecode if you have it accidentally set to capture across timecode breaks. At the break, it starts faking timecode. Everything after the break can be off.
But, I suppose you have to weigh these “might happens” against the headaches of doing it the other way and decide which is the lesser PITA to you!
debe
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