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Capturing issues
Can anyone help me out with this one…it’s a real brain teaser.
We have tapes from two different cameras, different shoots. On one of them we don’t know what the crew shot it in, it captures fine, except the video is sped up making the audio naturally go out of sync. So we assume it’s different frame rate and we’re waiting on them to tell us what they shot in.
The other shoot we know what the frame rate is, we have it set properly, but the same issue occurs. Now, it could be operator error (which was my first guest) but, we tried it again, it didn’t work, and we tried it a third time. The third time we left it capturing over night and when I got in in the morning, everything was fine with the capture. So I moved on to the second tape (from the same shoot, and didn’t change any capture settings) and it’s sped up again.
I’m racking my brain, please if anyone has any suggestion, I would greatly appreciate it.
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Well, in order to figure this out, you need to tell us at least what format we are talking about here. Tape, right? So HDV? DVCPRO HD? DV? BetacamSP?
Getting the details from the crew is ESSENTIAL. Not knowing what camera, what frame rate? That’s just plain poor communication…and someone needs to get on that. Shooting two different frame rates? That too is just plain poor communication, and someone needs to be reprimanded for laziness like that. EVERYTHING that happens in production leads to post…so everything needs to be done with post in mind. And making sure you shoot with compatible cameras, compatible frame rates, is one of those things.
If you can’t even tell US what formats we are talking about here, how can you expect us to help you? And how are you capturing? Firewire? Capture card?
Again…communcation. Gotta work on good communication skills.
Shane
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Also, can you monitor the sped up tape on a deck without capturing it? Does it play fine straight out of the deck, but the issue is after the capture?
Our company had some highschool drop off a bunch of bad tape loaded with timecode breaks and the like. And of course when we asked, “what frame rate, etc” they gave us a stare and said, “whatever the default, I think”. Sigh.
Anyway, after trying several times to capture, we had to play the tape through the deck into quicktime pro, and save it that way, rather than an actual capture into FCP. Seemed to work.
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Play back is fine which is what is confusing me. It plays fine and I was able to figure out the frame rate (for the other guy who posted, it’s not a communication issue because they’re different projects)
The issue now is that when we try to capture it, it only captures in about 1 1/2 minute increments and then it stops (like there was a timecode break, but there’s not) Then continues to capture another 1 1/2 minute segment, but we’re losing frames so it’s not like we can just throw it all on the time line and it’s good.
We’ve tried KONA, firewire, capture now, batch capture, everything. It’s DVCPRO HD.
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Are the :90 clips consistent (as in, are they ALL exactly the same length, or just roughly?). Do you have access to a second deck? Perhaps you can tape to tape duplicate and see if a fresh tape helps?
Have you run the ol basic FCP flu shot? That is trashing preferences, empty caches, etc.
What version of FCP are you running, and what are your computer stats? What deck are you using, and how is it going in to FCP.
Give us all those glorious details.
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They’re roughly 90 secs. Thanks for the suggestions I will try both.
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