Digitizing Fast Video

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[Joe Paolo] “Check the audio sample rate on the tape. I’ll bet it’s 32K. “

I’ve captured dozens of 32k tapes at 48k setting and that didn’t affect their play speed.

But hey, try anything once.

[James Haefner]

hey Joe, the sample rate was fine. I suspicious this has something to do with my new G Drive

I just bought the new G Drive Q and I am trying to capturing a Mini DV tape for the first time, and the playback is fine on the camera, but plays back FAST in FCP.

I reset my scratch disk to my boot drive > captured a clip and it played back fine. I really need to move forward with some capturing this weekend. Please help.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[James Haefner] “I just bought the new G Drive Q and I am trying to capturing a Mini DV tape for the first time, and the playback is fine on the camera, but plays back FAST in FCP.

I reset my scratch disk to my boot drive > captured a clip and it played back fine. I really need to move forward with some capturing this weekend. Please help.
“

Did you erase and format the drive as “Mac OS Extended?”

You should, for better FCP performance.
Try that.

If nothing else works…
Try transferring the clip you captured directly from your boot drive to your new G drive and see if it plays OK after that.

If it does, you can continue to do that procedure with subsequent clips,

Some extra steps but it will get you there this weekend.