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Having trouble with capturing from HDV to ProRes via firewire
I’m using the methodology recommended in Chris Poisson’s article “Capture HDV to ProRes over Firewire in FCP6.” Things are going pretty well, all things considered.
One issue that I found a workaround for: I’m running a dual core 3ghz intel machine with a kona LHe card (not that it matters much capturing via firewire) and found that after each tape that I needed to re-boot the computer otherwise I got a “you have reached the end of the tape” error message when I tried to capture a second tape. This is coming from a canon camera with material shot at “24” frames a second.
I have one problematic tape that I am trying to capture for the third time that when it gets close to the end of the tape FCP crashes and when I look at the capture scratch folder it didn’t get anything from that tape. I’m baby sitting and watching the tape through the whole capture now to see if there is a time code break.
Has anyone else had this sort of problem? What happens with this sort of capture strategy when the computer encounters a time code break?
Michael Escher
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UPDATE: I reached near the end of the tape (a little over 58 minutes) and FCP crashed again, even without a time code break. I’m gonna try to hit escape just before 58 minutes and see if the program will at least retain that much of the capture.
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