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“glitch” problem during capture
I’m using FC 6 on a MacbookPro with 2gig of ram and two 1T G-Tec scratch drives. Using a XL1 to import standard DV through the MacBook’s firewire port. Now for the problem.
On my latest project, I’m experiencing “glitches” during capture. These are similar to tape drop outs (some blocky pixels, audio “pop”) and from the point of the “glitch” the audio/vid is knocked out of sync.
these problems are apparent while monitoring the capture window and on the QT file after capture.
The tapes themselves when viewed through the camera or on any deck do not appear to have any drops or audio pops. This has happened once before, on a previous project, and I had wrongly assumed that it was a bad tape.
I’ve checked my settings (using standard NTSCDV-Easy Setting) , audio bit rate, whatever else I can think of.
possibly a fire wire issue?
one more interesting fact…..I borrowed a Canon Z80 just to test and using the same fireWire cable and port, Final Cut would lock up and lock up the computer whenever this camera was hooked up to the firewire.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance
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2 Replies
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Hi,
Does the glitch happen at the same spot if you capture the tape more than once? Does FCP stop when it hits the glitch and create a new clip? A few options: Make a firewire dub of the tape between two mini-dv cameras and capture the dub. Or try the trial of Capture Magic:
https://www.bigmugsoftware.com
It avoids a lot of QuickTime’s sensitivity to timecode glitches. As a bonus if you have two or more decks or cameras you can capture more than one source at a time.
The last option is one I try to avoid but often its the only way to get a tape in – convert it to analog with a media convertor or through another camera that can transcode analog in to firewire out. It will go slightly soft but the footage will remain in sync regardless of the problems that are on the tape.
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Thanks Joel,
I didn’t realize the QT was so sensitive to tape drops..I captured the tapes using Imovie, then converted them to QT and imported them into FC.. I haven’t had a problem yet.
Thanks
Kell
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