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FCP 5.1.2 and Timecode Issues
I know this topic has been addressed many times but I going to keep complaining about this until someone at Apple finally takes notice of this HUGE issue.
I have a project that was shot entire in HDV. I use my Kona 3 to capture my footage to DVCProHD so that I can eliminate all of the problems with HDV. My project is a 29.97 drop frame project. There is NO 24 p involved in this. I have already captured one full tape and most of a second tape using drop frame. My machine control is firewire and I have selected “Firewire NTSC” as my machine control, not “Firewire NTSC NDF”. So I know that the firewire connection is totally capable of drop frame timecode.
Today, I started up my system to continue my batch capture process of the last eight clips on my tape. I selected my offline clips to batch capture, the dialog windows come up like the usual, BUT when I clicked “ok” to start the process, I get an error message telling that I can’t mix non-drop frame timecode clips with a drop frame project. I haven’t changed a single thing in my project other than shutting down and starting up my machine the next day and continuing my batch capture.
Listen to me carefully… I haven’t changed a thing in any clips. I just went to batch capture them.
This only happens every once in a while and trashing the prefs does not correct the problem. My only solution so far is to delete the clips and re-log them and then and only then can I capture them without the timecodes being screwed up.
Oh yeah…. when this happens and I go ahead and batch capture ( I also end up with twice as many clips to capture), My timecodes on every single clip are reset to 00:00:00:00. I loose my timecodes!
Now…. there is no way that you can say that I have miscoded my clips and that maybe I have accideantally tried to caputre with the wrong Easy Setup. NOTHING has changed in any way other than shutting down my system and contuning the next day. I have already sent feedback to Apple every single time this happens but so far we haven’t seen any results of any correction of thsi issue.
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Wayne Carey
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I don’t have any advice or a fix for you, what I have is another aknowledgement that his is happening and needs to be addressed. I’m not going to NAB this year, but often, asking the question in front of a few thousand customers motivated them to actually do something. I’m not going this year, but have a few questions myself.
I don’t like the idea of doing that, but sometimes it’s the only way to get them to recognize how serious a problem is. It may seem small … until they realize that this is what we do for a living. To date, I haven’t met anyone I didn’t like on a personal level, however I have had to force their feet to the fire to get problems solved.
All my best.
pb
ps, I now only transfer hdv to dvcpro hd through the pana 1200a deck. After last night, I’m giving up on HDV as an edit format. It simply doesn’t work. -
[paul boyer] “‘m not going to NAB this year, but often, asking the question in front of a few thousand customers motivated them to actually do something.”
I agree with you completely. Sometimes it does take an eye opener in front of lots of users to open the eyes of a company. I did this with Media100 years ago and our issues were corrected in about 2 months.
[paul boyer] “ps, I now only transfer hdv to dvcpro hd through the pana 1200a deck. After last night, I’m giving up on HDV as an edit format. It simply doesn’t work.”
Amen, Brother! Another one has seen the light!
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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I have too, and it has to do with firewire captures. i was able to solve it by going and changing the capture device back and forth from dv to dv NDF. It’s definitely a bug.
People say that FCP is now ‘smarter’ in how it interprets the tc, but to me it’s ‘busted’.
Jeremy
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[JeremyG] “People say that FCP is now ‘smarter’ in how it interprets the tc, but to me it’s ‘busted’.”
I will second that one!
It ALWAYS occurs with firewire machine control with any machine attached.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
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