FCP 6 stops capture- dropped frames- bad HD card?

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FCP 6 stops capture- dropped frames- bad HD card?

Posted by Dale Larsen on March 24, 2008 at 5:30 am

First off I want to say that I get a lot of great info from all of you on this forum. I Really value this tool we have here.

I have some Varicam material that I have been trying to capture at uncompressed 10 bit but it ALWAYS drops out with the dropped frame message. it involves a lot of layers so i’d like to keep the quality up.

I have a Deck link HD, (4yrs old) and have been trying a variety of blackmagic codecs.

DVCPRO HD 720 or 1080 no problem with carture
8 bit 720 no problem.
10 bit 720, drops out

I seem to have a data rate issue.

I have a 3.6TB internal sata raid (mirrored).Should it be a Stripped raid?

raid is empty.

dual 2.0 G5
6gig memory

Can these HD Cards go funky?

It has locked up on me once today (no picture til i reboot machine)

and when left to batch capture a tape, it stops the transfer cause “timecode breaks”were encountered.

This tape has no breaks, since i imput it at low res just an hour ago- no TC breaks.

reboot the Mac and the tape captures without a hitch.

the card is becoming suspect, yes?
perhaps I should pull it and re seat it in the slot.

Deck link speed test is 220megs/s out & 216m write.

thats fast enough for 10 bit uncompressed, isn’t it?

any thoughts?

Thanks

Dale Larsen replied 18 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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Shane Ross
March 24, 2008 at 5:32 am

Dropped frames…that points to drive speed. Yeah, they should be striped, not mirrored. Mirrored is too slow.

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Dale Larsen
March 24, 2008 at 4:26 pm

I will re format the raid and see what happens.

So the card is not suspect?

Thanks
Shane Ross
March 24, 2008 at 5:52 pm

Doesn’t sound like an issue with the card…sounds like a slow drive issue. RAID properly first, then see.

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Del Chapple
March 24, 2008 at 6:23 pm

Intel mac or G5? i ask because a new intel mac will do prorez which is much less demanding on disks but you need a lot of processors on board to compress on the fly, a g5 wont cut it.. Uncompressed 720p is rather demanding on data 160MB/s or so. maybe defrag the drive. if you get enough open pasture to write the data, you might survive..?

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Dale Larsen
March 24, 2008 at 10:29 pm

Shane,
I re formatted to a “stripped” raid and now I can capture 10 bit, but only from the 1200 A deck. (also 1080 8 bit)
so restripping was definate progress.
what about (journaled) or not?

I have a couple of “B”roll that are on Sony HDV (Z-1) and have tried to input that, but the system will not accept it, even at 8 bit. (dropped frame error)
the signal IS passing through 2 converters to get it to 720 HDSDI. perhaps the 2 coverters are part of the issue.

if I can capture 720 8 bit from a 1200 deck, then I should be able to capture 720 8 bit from the converters? yes/no?

thanks for the valuable info

seems logical enough.

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