Kona LH and Drop Frame

[Shane Ross]

What Easy Setup, or capture settings, are you using?

Shane

Shane

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[Jeremy Garchow]

…and how fast are your drives that you are capturing to?

[Buck Miller]

Thanks guys.
Jeremy, I am using the Xserve RAID drives.

Shane, in the “Capture Presets” tab of the “Audio/Video Settings”:

The Preset is: AJA Kona LH: 525 29.97 10 Bit

When I click on Edit:
Frame Size: 720 x 486 CCIR 601 NTSC (40:27)

QuickTime Video Settings:
Digitizer: AJA Kona 10-bit Digitizer
Input: 525i29.97 (720×486)
Compressor: Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2
Quality: 100%
FPS: 29.97

Quicktime Audio Settings:
Device: AJA Kona
Input: (grayed out)
Format: 48.000 kHz 24-bit 8-chan

Capture Card Supports Simultaneous Play Through and Capture IS checked
Remove Advanced Pulldown and/or Duplicate Frames from FireWire sources IS NOT checked
Hight-Quality Video Play Through IS checked

Under the “Device Control Presets” tab (I use a Sony 1800):

The Preset is AJA Kona LH NTSC Sony VTR

When I click on Edit:

Protocol: Sony RS0422
Audio Mapping: 2 channels
Time Source: LTC+VITC
Port: Kona Serial
Frame Rate: 29,97
Default Timecode: THIS IS GRAYED OUT!

Use Deck Search Mechanism IS checked

Capture Offset: -2
Handle Size: 00:00:00;00
Playback Offset: 00:00;00

Hope this helps. Thanks!

[David Roth weiss]

Are you trying to capture from the very head of the reel or from the very beginning of a camera start?

The only time I ever see any drop frame/non-drop issues is when not allowing the deck enough preroll time to accurately set the proper timecode flavor. This can apply to either a logged entry or with record now.

DRW

[Buck Miller]

Thanks David. No, I am not trying to start at the beginning of the tape. It is really about in the middle. I can capture a minute at a time, and edit that together, but as you can imagine, that will take some time with three 30 minute tapes to do. I am not SURE that drop frame is the issue, I just assume it is because all other tapes have been non-drop and I have been able to capture them fine.

Buck

[David Roth weiss]

[bucksbucks] “I am not SURE that drop frame is the issue, I just assume it is because all other tapes have been non-drop and I have been able to capture them fine.”

Drop/non-drop is pretty much a non-issue. I would instead consider one of three things as a more likely candidate:

1) corrupt timecode on the tape – in this case dub to another tape

2) trash prefs and try again – prefs got corrupted in between tapes

3) project developed corruption – try capturing the offending tape to a new project

Hope this helps…

DRW

[Buck Miller]

It will be tonight, but I will try all of these things. Great ideas. I will let you know if any of these work. Thanks again.

Buck