DVC Pro 50 out of sync… Urgent …

[Aaron Neitz]

Describe in more detail what you mean “all the footage by running on capture card”…

Did you capture via Firewire? SDI?

Is your audio in Sync at the head of a clip and out by the end?

You shouldn’t have any problems with this camera, DV50, and audio drift. I think there’s something in your editor’s workflow that isn’t quite right.

[Daniel Elder]

I captured via firewire through a AJ-SD93, we are capturing through the easy setup of DVCPRO 50 Anamorphic. We are in sync at the head, and then it gradually goes out of sync. Should we try to capture the audio seperately from the video?

We just did an easy setup, DV50 Anamorphic, why would this happen?

Thanks
Dan

Daniel Elder
Associate Producer
http://www.luminair.com

[Aaron Neitz]

Hm… and obviously you were feeding audio from the set directly to the DV50 tape??? Is it in sync on the tape? This is NTSC?

Try doing this on a clip you already have… unlink the audio and set it’s speed to 99.92%

[Daniel Elder]

We have captured it straight to the DV50 Tape, and it is in sync on the tape, we would do playback on set, and everything seemed fine. We are looking into a setting on the DV50 preset that is a button to Remove the Advanced pulldown and/or duplicate frames from firewire source to see if that solves the problem, hopefully?

I will let you know if this option works, or if your suggestion works.

Then the next step financially is to get the Analog/digital board for the AJ-SD93.

Thanks

Daniel Elder
Associate Producer
http://www.luminair.com

[Daniel Elder]

We are not having luck with the “advanced pulldown option,” but we noticed that at 29.97 the audio was coming in at 47.65 or something along those numbers, and we did a test at 30 frames instead of 29.97 and the audio came in at 48. So we are trying to capture a tape at that setting to see if that works as well. Wish us luck

Daniel Elder
Associate Producer
http://www.luminair.com

[David Roth weiss]

Daniel,

This is a well known problem between FCP and the Panasonic deck. I encountered the same issue several months ago and after researching it completely I have vowed never to use DV50 again until this is fixed. However, I found that logging several 10-min clips and then capturing those seemed to work (most of the time) and that Capture Now worked almost none of the time. This issue made an easy 8-hour job into a nightmare 20-hour job, and one tape never did come in right and had to eyeball synced. The whole thing is a major pain in the butt.

Good luck,
DRW

[Daniel Elder]

Sync issue continues, it is completely out of sync on capture, in sync when just playing back through the monitor, I don’t have any clues as what to do?

Daniel Elder
Associate Producer
http://www.luminair.com

[Daniel Elder]

It’s a pain in the ass, I don’t understand why this setup worked fine once for us, and is not working at all now. What a difference a year could make, JEEZ.
The DVX-100 audio sync tool on the FCP studio disks won’t help will it? There is no other solution that anyone has come accross yet, is there?

Daniel Elder
Associate Producer
http://www.luminair.com

[Sean Oneil]

I suggest renting a different VTR. I capture DV50 tapes with an AJ-HD1200A all the time and have never had any issues like this.

In the meantime, contact Panasonic and have your deck serviced. This sounds like faulty hardware and not Final Cut’s fault. Something is wrong with the Firewire bus on your VTR. Probably a defective batch of these VTRs were let loose.

[Daniel Elder]

Here is the kicker, all of the footage plays fine on playback, and plays fine when we are previewing it during the capture, but once the footage is in, the audio changes rate from clip to clip. We have the setting on “make a new clip” on timecode breaks, and each clip comes in at a new audio frequency. So that makes us believe that it’s related to FCP and not hardware, do you agree?

Daniel Elder
Associate Producer
http://www.luminair.com