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droping frames
I captured about 35 minutes of DV footage to FCP. I used the “capture now” button to do so. As I play the footage back in the viewer, it start off ok, then the sound becomes more and more out of sync with the video. I believe that it is droping frames but I don’t know why or how to fix it. Thank you.
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8 Replies
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Are you capturing to a drive other than your startup disk? i.e. a Firewire or other internal drive?
Jerry
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I am using my start up disk to capture the footage via firewire.
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That’s very likely your problem. You are asking that hard drive to not only playback media, but to capture it while running the OS, FCP, reading your project file etc… all at the same time. It’s just not the best way to run your system.
You’d see a big improvement if you don’t capture to that same drive… FW 800 or internal SATA or external SATA would be the way to go… I’ll wager you won’t drop frames any more.
Jerry
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I do have another internal drive in my tower that has not been used yet. I figured to fill the first drive first then move to the second. I will start to capture all of my footage to the unused drive. Thank you very much Jerry.
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Post back if it doesn’t fix you up, but it likely will.
Jerry
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Like Jerry says, never, ever use your start up drive to capture with. You can also set up a preference within FCP to tell you if you’re dropping frames during capture, then next time you won’t have to guess whether or not this is happening.
– Don
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[Execute] “I do have another internal drive in my tower that has not been used yet. I figured to fill the first drive first then move to the second. I will start to capture all of my footage to the unused drive. Thank you very much Jerry.”
As Jerry says, never ever capture to your System Drive. Only use it for your OS, Applications and maybe graphics. All video media needs to go on a separate drive.
I would copy all of that media from your System Drive to a new Capture Scratch folder on your 2nd drive, then erase the original media on the System Drive. Use Reconnect Media to point FCP to the copied media if necessary.
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Thank you guys very much. I will let you know how things work out for me as soon as I try it. I am new to these forums, this is great!
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