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Footage Skipping HELP
So … I have worked with Final Cut Professionally for about 5 years now. And every once in a while I run into this issue with Capturing footage from a DVCAM and now a HDV Tape down converted as DVCAM. Just haven’t had a time to address this with outside knowledge.
I usually pick another shot and move on.
The issue is this: I am capturing HDV footage (Previously Logged) a warning sign pops up first about the fact that I am capturing NDF footage into a DF setting. Ok, I can change that. Now before I did ignore it and the tape captured fine.
But now after capturing the Footage is skipping, yup Skipping. Awkward. Well, I did the usual troubleshooting thing.
1) Check the Tape in another deck to see if TC or if the shot itself is skipping … NOPE
2) Check the deck settings … I tried capturing in NDF and DF … NOPE
3) Switch the Firewire Cable – NOPE
4) Change the settings in FCP – NOPE
5) Capture Now setting with no device control … mmm …. No again.
6) I also Threw away the Final Cut Prefs to make sure there is nothing going on there.So, Does anyone have any other suggestions. I am in your knowledgeable hands. Because just about half the shots of footage I really need is doing that. … I have a while before the deadline. But I would like to get this resolved.
My Configuration:
MAC PRO – 2.8 Quad – 4GB of RAM
1.5 TB RAID System
AJA KONA Card
SONY HDV M15U Capture Deck
Tapes Recorded on a Sony V1 HDV Camera
FCP 6.0.2THANKS FOR ANY HELP GIVEN … PLEASE DON’T BE SHY ABOUT ANY SUGGESTIONS. I WILL TRY JUST ABOUT ANYTHING … Except throw the computer out the Window. 😉
-Raymond Tuquero-
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[Raymond Tuquero] “Except throw the computer out the Window. 😉 “
That is truly the only way to get rid of the problem, at least temporarily.
Your raid system, is a firewire raid system?
ANd the tapes you are capturing, the deck is doing the down-convert or you had those tapes down-converted?
Is your tape DF or NDF?
Jeremy
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Well … I for the Throwing part … I still like my window.
As for the Raid, it is connected via Fibre Channel 4GB (Big o thing). And I am capturing footage by hardware downconverting … I am not a fan of downconverting then capturing. I feel footage done that way looses some info and doesn’t look as good as it was originally shot. The deck has a setting to downconvert the footage with either Crop Edges, squeezed, or with Black bars.
Still pondering … I had an issue with this before … and it was back when the Raid had an update that messed up a setting change to screw with FCP. But the last update fixed that. Do you think it messed up the setting again?
Hmmm … More diving is needed.
Thanks for the reponse,
-Raymond Tuquero-
Houston Editor -
Don’t know about your raid. I was just making sure it wasn’t firewire.
As far as the df/ndf, are your tapes df or ndf? if ndf, make sure to choose the firewire ndf device control setting.
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