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FCP HDCAM capture
Hello I’ve just been sent a bunch of HDCAM tapes that my client wants putting together into a short reel. I’ve not done a huge amount of HD work but what I have done up until now has been fine. I am working on a FCP Studio system connected to a Sony J-H3 DVCAM deck via a KONA-2 card and am based in the UK so I am working natively in PAL and capturing through SDI.
Some of the material has digitised in fine but I’ve got a couple of tapes that I am having trouble with. Basically the tapes run fine in the deck but as I scrub through them in FCP the timecode keeps resetting itself every 48 seconds or so. It does not do this on the deck though.
Up until now my capture input has been “AJA KONA 2 1080i 25 8 bit.” As the tapes themselves seem fine I’m assuming it is something in the capture settings or the KONA settings.
The KONA naturally seems to defult to 1080i25 when the SDI is plugged into the deck.
Has anyone else come accross this or have any ideas what the issues are?
Thanks
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Have just tried playing the tapes through a Black Magic DeckLink card on another system and am getting the same results……
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[Jackdown] “Up until now my capture input has been “AJA KONA 2 1080i 25 8 bit.” As the tapes themselves seem fine I’m assuming it is something in the capture settings or the KONA settings.”
It is not your Kona card, actually it is an issue with HDCAM at 24 and 25 fps
The best you can do is tell FCP to ignore time code breaksgary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
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Cheers, I was beginning to be afeared that it may be something like that. I was hoping to be able to leave things capturing over night but looks like I’ll have to sit up with it….. better buy myself some more coffee.
Any ideas as to why it does this?
They are all tapes from one source so is it to do with the way that they are dubbed over or what?
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