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HDCam24 capture at 30
Real fast. I’ll use short hand knowing that 24 is really 23.98 and 30 is really 29.97… and so on. At least in my world. 🙂 No film out here! New to this forum and FCP really, but worked on AVID and most recently Autodesk Smoke for 20 years now. Here is my issue.
Using FCP Studio to capture an HDCam tape shot at 24. Capturing to an external drive for a friend connected firewire 800. HDCam is set to 24 mode and fed tri-level. Without a sync feed to our FCP, I was having a terrible time capturing at 24, so I opted for the “easy” rout, and go SD 30 with pull-down.
If I capture the entire tape so that it will cut up the capture at TC breaks, more often then not, I get an error at the end saying “user aborted capture” and a series of logged with no media clips. What is it that I am missing on this setup? I’m feeling like it is a setting that slipped through the cracks.
This is but the first of what will most certainly be many postings my me. I hope that someone can shed some light on this for me, and equally hope that I can return the favor someday.
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Hi Chuck,
Sorry I can not hep you much about the 24-30 issue. Thanks God I’m in PAL land (we have other issues in exchange).
You my try to change your setting in the “Users Preferences”.
Uncheck “Abort capture on dropped frames”.
In “On Timecode Break”, try “Warn after capture” or “Make new clip”. See how it works.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
rafael -
thank you for the reply. I was able to capture the footage using your advise. I did notice that as it tryed to pick up after a TC break, sometimes it was not successful and I had to pay close attention to make sure all footage was captured from the tape. It was inconsistent with amount of “dead tape” and it did not always fail. I have it in the back of my head that sync would help the issue. as always, the “capture all and start editing” workflow is not always as easy as it sounds. 🙂 I’m starting to like the direct to disk shooting more and more. (if it weren’t for compression)
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