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DV Capture Questions
I thought I understood this, but its driving me nuts.
I am capturing mini DV tapes shot at 29.97. when the tape is in the camera (not the camera that shot the tapes, but my “deck”) when the tape is stopped i can see a timecode saying 22:37:43;20. that doesnt change, but when the tape plays it starts from 00:00:00;00. not sure what thats about.
also the capture will stop and say there’s a tape error, it will save what was captured but that saved capture won’t work in FCP, it has to be logged and batch captured.
also some things are coming in at 48, some at 48009.2?
what is going on? are these camera issues? if it matters, these are sony tapes and a panasonic dvx100…
i just want to know that i’m capturing properly and how to avoid these confusing things…
Austin Reedy
Freelance Post
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3 Replies
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I can’t be certain but it sounds as if there are timecode breaks in your tape.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
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Are you capturing from a cannon cam? Some Cannon Cams have audio issues.
Editor, Sound Designer, Stop-Motion Animator, Lighting, and Pack Mule
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Hey,
How are you capturing? port/settings? internal/external hard drive?
You could try changing your capture settings to ‘non controllable device’
I had a problem recently which I thought was a bad tape but turned out to be an extra .5 metre on my SATA cable to my external Lacie. Switching to the Macs Internal Drive in system settings for capture/scratch disc cured all.
Steve Walker – MacBook Pro, 3.06 GHz, 4 GB Intel Core Duo, Lacie sata II express card w/ 2TB Lacie Quadra, MIDI from M-Audio Firewire 410. FCP 7, Logic Pro 9
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