Error message after capture

[Rich Harrison]

I would suggest your problem is caused in one of two areas:
Either (and most likely) your Cinewave RT card or possibly your SCSI connection. First and formost, restart the system. Check all cables both SCSI and Cinewave. Also be sure the drivers and dashboard for Cinewave haven’t been blasted away from a previous crash and are up to date.
Rex

[Nate Owens]

Thanks Rex, I’ll give it a try and let you know.

Nate

[Nate Owens]

Didn’t work. Reinstalled Cinewave hardware and software, reconected cables, nada. Did I maybe not trash all of the preferences I needed to?

Nate

[Don Greening]

Did you try trashing the FCP pref files?

– Don

[Nate Owens]

Hi Don. Thanks for responding. I did trash those preferences and still no luck.

Nate

[Don Greening]

Okay. The reason I asked about the FCP prefs is because I had the exact same issue and trashing the prefs cured the problem. FCP would capture to the hard drive, then at the end would tell me that I had bad TC and would delete the capture file. At the risk of sounding redudant (redundant, redundant)……double-check that you’ve trashed all the FCP prefs. Here’s a link on how to do it properly:

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

If you’re now saying: “enough already. I did all that” then you might try starting a brand new project and try capturing again, because you might have a corrupt project file or sequence file within that project. If that works you can capture away and then drag the files into your present project’s capture scratch folder and then just import them from within the browser. If you’ve already done all this then disregard my ramblings.

Just some thoughts.

– Don

[Nate Owens]

Hi Don – thanks again for offering your help. I’ll have to wait until Monday am when i’m back in the office. I’ll keep you posted.

Nate

[Nate Owens]

Hi Don. I trashed the preferences and still same problem. i then uninstalled FCP and reinstalled and still had the problem. I’m about ready to lose my mind! What is so odd is that the capture process all acts “normal”. It just keeps giving that stupid file unknown message. Could this be a Quicktime issue? Thanks again for helping me out.

Nate

[Don Greening]

I dunno, Nate. I’m out of ideas now. I would suggest you start a new thread outlining your problem so it’ll be front and centre up at the top of the FCP forum page and in everyone’s face. Um, and creat a link in your post to your original thread down here.

I can only relate to you what has worked for me in the past with similar problems, but I have no experience with Medea hard drives or your Cinewave capture card since I work only with Mini DV and firewire. I noticed that you’re a little short on RAM for your G4 but if everything’s been working fine up till now the RAM thing might not be so much of an issue.

– Don

[Don Greening]

Forgot to ask if you’ve ever tried to capture to another hard drive other than the Medea. Your startup drive, for example, just to run a test.

– Don