frustrated

[Walter Biscardi]

[s_oboyle] ”
i feel like evertime i have to update my problem I have to do a new post so that people will see it. I am using Final Cut Pro 4.5 and i am capturing video through a mini dv deck with a firewire cable and i’m capturing to the privacy of spotlight in the system prefences because somebody here told me to do that.”

What?! Never heard of that one. In any case, you need a media drive to capture to, not the internal drive.

[s_oboyle] “Because I’m using firewire I tried to use the NTSC capture preset but I kept getting dropped frames when I capture so i changed the compressor in the NTSC preset to Mpeg-4 and limited the data rate to 3500 kbs per second but Now the video quality is really bad. My Hard drive is a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Hard drive. It has 13 GB of free space. please help.”

You’re dropping frames because your internal drive is not fast enough for video capture / play while also running your system and the software. You need a media drive in order to capture. Limiting the data rate is not the way to go.

Really nothing else to help you with until you get a media drive and format it OS Extended. NOT journaled.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Arnie Schlissel]

OK, so I did a quick search of this forum under your name & I see that you’ve posted 5 times in the last week with related problems. In fact, I’ve responded to 2 of your previous posts. And the last time I responded I told you pretty much what Walter just said. It’s pretty clear to me that your system is not set up properly. It might be a good idea to pay someone to set it up for you, or to pay someone to digitize the material to a firewire hard drive for you on their system.

Arnie
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[s_oboyle] “My Hard drive is a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Hard drive. It has 13 GB of free space.”

Is this the system drive? NEVER CAPTURE TO THE SYSTEM DRIVE!!! If it is a separate drive then what is the total size of the drive, all you said is how much free space the drive has. ALWAYS leave at least 10-15% free on any hard drive. So if the drive is a 500GB drive then it is way to full, for a drive of that size it should have at least 50GB free.

[Tom Wolsky]

What version of the OS is this?

10.4.9 capture issue
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305284

All the best,

Tom

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