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Digitizing makes the clips start @ 00:00:00:00
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[Ted Coakley] “Thanks for your reply. Any more thoughts?”
Yes.
[Ted Coakley] “This is all from VX-1000 footage (minidv, 32kHz audio, DropFrame)”
See, why don’t you say these things first? The 32kHz audio can be a problem and is undoubtedly causing the sync issue as FCP is transcoding to 48k on the fly, and the firewire bus conflict plus the processing is getting stressed (remember the thing about separating the busses?).
I THINK (although I am not sure) you can force the deck to send 48k audio. Grab the little remote and menu through that deck.
Jeremy
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Jeremy:
I didn’t mention the 32kHz earlier, because that hasn’t caused conflict with FCP4.5, for years, and I really doubt Apple would design the later FCP5.1.4 to all of a sudden not work with 32kHz audio.
Why would FCP be transcoding to 48kHz on the fly if my sequence and capture settings are for 32kHz?
As for the deck sending 32kHz audio out as 48kHz, nope. You can adjust the deck to record in either 32 or 48, but it automatically sends out whichever signal is on the tape. That’s what I gathered from going through the operations manual and the remote-controlled menu functions last night.
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Ted:
Any details about your current setup will only HELP and not detract from us helping you.
[Ted Coakley] “I didn’t mention the 32kHz earlier, because that hasn’t caused conflict with FCP4.5, for years, and I really doubt Apple would design the later FCP5.1.4 to all of a sudden not work with 32kHz audio. “
Why do you doubt this?
[Ted Coakley] “Why would FCP be transcoding to 48kHz on the fly if my sequence and capture settings are for 32kHz? “
Things change with different releases. Is there a 32Khz dv easy setup in FCP 5.1.4? I can’t remember.
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Jeremy:
The doubt I mentioned is because as an application develops/progresses, newer versions are not supposed to take away capabilities of previous versions, but rather maintain and/or add them. Thus, if FCP4.5 can handle 32kHz, then fcp5.1.4 should also be able to.
And, note: with no changes made on my computer, the Media Time, Reel field and audio/video sync problems have suddenly disappeared for the last 6 captures.
There is not a 32kHz dv Easy Setup in 5.1.4, NOR in 4.5. I had to create preset/Easy Setup for that, myself.
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[Ted Coakley] “The doubt I mentioned is because as an application develops/progresses, newer versions are not supposed to take away capabilities of previous versions, but rather maintain and/or add them. Thus, if FCP4.5 can handle 32kHz, then fcp5.1.4 should also be able to. “
Perhaps in software utopia, but alas, FCP does not reside there.
[Ted Coakley] “And, note: with no changes made on my computer, the Media Time, Reel field and audio/video sync problems have suddenly disappeared for the last 6 captures. “
This really sounds like a firewire bus conflict, but you don’t want to hear that.
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Jeremy,
Why do I not want to hear about it being a firewire bus conflict? Is that a major pain to resolve – like hard to find a good PCI card, or some other reason?
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[Ted Coakley] ” Is that a major pain to resolve – like hard to find a good PCI card, or some other reason?”
No, it’s very easy and cheap. Do you have any other PCI cards in your computer?
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