dropped video

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What type of Hard Drive are you using to Capture the clips?

[Bret Williams]

DVCPro is the same format as DV or DV25. Is there a DV-PAL or AppleDV-PAL setup?

[Rap]

I’m using 3 external “Western Digital” 8MB cache, 250 GB each
and i had to use the internal drive

[Rap]

I’m using DVCPRO 50 not DVCPRO
which doesnt read DVCPRO

oh GOD these formats are driving me crazy

[Bret Williams]

In your post you twice said you were only using DV25 (DV-PAL, DVCPro are both DV25 formats). You only mentioned DVCPro50 once at the end.

If the formats are confusing you then yeah, somewhere in there that’s probably your issue. For example, if you’re really using DVCPro50 then your drive speed is probably your issue. What drives are you using? Standard ATA or FW drives are probably not going to cut it.

[Rap]

As I’ve mintioned before , I’m using 3 Western Digital and the internal drive, and it’s connected as FW.
By the way what does “Trash your preferences” mean ?
is that what i need to do ?

and yes it is a DVCPro format

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[rap] “By the way what does “Trash your preferences” mean ?”

THE FOLLOWING COMES FROM THE KEN STONE WEBSITE:
“Over 5,000 years ago Confucius wrote: ‘If you are toiling away, you have changed nothing and FCP heads South on you, [starts behaving in strange ways] then it is time to trash your FCP Preferences.’ ”

Click the following link for instructions.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html

A great way to do this is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
There are versions for FCPro & FCExpress.

Download these free Apple Scripts at

https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/

This is one FCP tip that has helped in hundreds of “odd” problems.

[Rap]

Thanks a lot, will try this now
so could this be the reason for the dropped video?

[Rap]

Hi
I apologize if this is a stupid question) )
I did exactly what it says and when I lunch the FCP I went to file>open and couldn

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[rap] “Is that normal?”

After you trashed the preferences, you’d likely have to go directly to the Mac file to tell FCP which project to open.