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Frame dropping during Premiere capture
I am getting dropped frame readings during Premiere capture. I am capturing DVCAM from a Sony DSR-25 deck. I am capturing to a dedicated scratch disk on a top of the line Dell (their most expensive multimedia sations), with fast hard drive (over 72), purshased two months ago. It has 3 gigs of RAM. When I capture the same tape with the same firewire cable to my MAC G5, I am not dropping frames.
Can anyone give me any clues to where to look in my configuration to figure out why frames are being dropped? Also, does anyone know, if I do drop frames, will this create time code wrinkles? I would imagine that time code is being captured from the tape so that if a frame is dropped, this means a frame of time code will be dropped, but for all the frames that are captured the time code will still reflect the time code on the tape. If I use the caputure tape with a few dropped frames — I am assuming that, for this reason, my timecode on my digitized file will not go out of sync with my time code on my tape. Is this correct?
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It really depends on how much your FPS is dropping, 1-3 and maybe 4 shouldn’t make much difference. My RAM is a little weak and I’ve tried doing what you are doing,my FPS drops by 3 sometimes when I’m recording. Doesn’t seem to have much effect on the time code or the over-all look of the video.
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What codec are you using ? eg. DV or uncompressed AVI ?
Also make sure your drivers of the Motherboard is up to date.
– Derrick
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