Dropped frames detected.

[David Roth weiss]

Gerry,

Did you bother to read my post above in response to Bob?

You can try all you want, but you will not be able to capture ProRes via a Kona card on your dual proc G5 without dropping frames, and by toggling off “abort capture on dropped frames” you simply insure that you will create files with dropped frames.

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[Gerry Condez]

Hi David,
I read your post. But not sure of all of those terms, so I just have to try. I am not really familiar with anything HD yet even ProRes422 at this time. I’m here to get more understanding about what and how I can use my existing system. Thanks for the help.
As Bob mentioned “…and capture from your Kona 3 at ProRes422 to your internal boot drive (this is a test, and you will delete these files later) just to see if it works. ”
I would like to see it work since it took me a while to build this system and unfortunately, I felt like this will take too much rendering for the kind of work that I do. I even thought that the Kona card will help the CPU in processing effects but basically a capture card. I never had problems with HDV through firewire anyway. Now I even get “hardware failed to render” messages as I use the FCP and Kona3 combination. Pict below. I must check my settings again. My audio too is totally unsynced.

For years I’ve been using media100 and would like to try FCP because of the plugins.

Thanks Again
GErry

[David Roth weiss]

Gerry,

Calm down and try to stay on point with one thing at a time, please… This is not nearly as tough as you think. Plenty of Media 100 dudes have made the transition, you just need to take it one step at a time.

Bob was mistaken, clearly having forgotten that the dual G5 Mac you’re using is simply 100% incapable of capturing any video format to ProRes via a capture card. So, forget everything he told you, it was bogus info and you need to forget it. Your raid is fine, the problem has nothing to do with your hard drives. Got it??? Capture to DVCProHD, or to 8-bit uncompressed, but you can’t capture to ProRes using the Kona card, period, end of story. Does that compute?

So, please quit your knee jerk reactions. Your machine is going to work just fine when you learn the proper way to do things. Okay?

David

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[Gerry Condez]

Hi David,
Thanks for the push. After an exhaustive google search and multiple trial and error, my system finally gone smooth 2:45am. Yup, ProRez422 wont work well, though I can capture video and audio really sharp but none of the audio synced. The best setting I can use is (AJA KONA3: 29.97 10 Bit) Only realtime I get is the 3 way color corrector. For now its alright. BTW MBQLooks works now. Took an hour to render 3.5 mins. Ouch.
Many thanks,
Gerry

[David Roth weiss]

[Gerry Condez] “Yup, ProRez422 wont work well, though I can capture video and audio really sharp but none of the audio synced.”

It’s out of sync because its only capturing intermittent video frames. That’s because it really doesn’t work at all, it just appears to work. Unfortunately the processors just can’t handle transcoding ProRes in realtime.

The two issues that most disturb you, i.e. capture to ProRes and rendering time, are both factors of the four year old technology that is the reality of the dual 2.7ghz machine. It was a terrific machine once upon a time, and it will still do many things quite nicely, but it does have certain limitations as you’re discovering.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.