Clips loosing Time Code after shutting down

[Shane Ross]

Then no capture card. Direct firewire in.

You posted this question on the Apple site too, right? I believe I am the guy who suggested the tapes were DF…but that matters not. This is really a mystery.

How about capturing on your boss’ G5? Try a different station and see what happens…

[Jeremy Garchow]

Wait, i just thought of something. Are you looking at these clips in Quicktime? If so, quicktime will show that each movie starts at 0:00.0. You need to look at these clips through FCP in the viewer window. Above the image in the viewer window will be two sets of what looks like timecode. The one on the right will be the correct timecode.

Another way to check is to put a clip in the timeline and turn on the timecode overlays to see what the timecode really is, or drop a tc reader filter on it and then tell us what the timecode says.

You aren’t capturing in FCP Express are you?

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Melissa]

I am not looking at it in Quicktime. I will try out your sugestion of puttin gthe clip in the time line.

[Melissa]

Timecode overlays on in the sequence…still has the same problem..we are attempting to capture from the G5 now….

[Michael Alberts]

There is a special FIrewire NDF Device control preset for FCP. Try using this device control preset and see if that has any effect after your clip is captured and the computer restarted.

Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.