• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Dropped Frames on Playback to Tape

  Posted by Pat Defilippo on July 19, 2007 at 10:06 pm

  Hello all!

  I have a client who I just installed FCS2 for on his G5 Dual 2.X desktop. He just completed 7 sequences, a few of them 1.5 hours long, and was outputting them to DVCam via Firewire and the “Print to Video” function (he manually started and stopped the deck).

  On two of the seven tapes (so far), he had a frozen frame for a second followed by dropped audio and then the sequence resumed. However, even though the “report dropped frames on output” preference was checked, no warning (that he could recall) was given at the end of playback.

  I suggested that he do two things:
  1) Determine what clip in the sequence froze up, then delete the media file from the disk and re-capture the clip (this is an old StrataSphere non-linear workaround when something like this happened on that)
  2) Try “print to tape” with deck control next time because dropped frames might abort the entire playback

  I originally suggested he trash the preferences, but this is his first project using FCP6 and they are literally new (he hasn’t had any need to restart anything in FCS2 yet). There is the possiblity that something is wrong with the deck or the tape, too, but it only happened on two of the seven tapes (that he knows about at this point) and I would think that the deck would have stopped recording (considering what the video played back looks like).

  Does anyone have any ideas as to what’s going on? Has anyone had any similar experiences with FCP6 (he said he never had that with FCS1 and this same deck setup)?

  Thanks in advance!
  -Pat

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