Media start time 00:00:00:00 after capture

[John Pale]

Glad it worked out…sorry i missed some of your details…kinda multitasking here.

John

[Steve Cohen]

Yeah me too.

Thanks agin for the help.

Maybe the 6.0.1 update will fix whatever it was.

I just was that was out along with a bunch of others for the Studio.

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Was your minidv tape in df or ndf, and what device control preset did you use, firewire or firewire ndf?

Jeremy

[Ted Coakley]

Sooo, it’s been over a year since the last post on this thread, and I’m a wonderin – any solution yet?!?

I’m having the same problem:
When I try to Batch Capture clip(s) from a FCP4.5 Project, into a FCP5.1.4 Project, the Media Start Time changes to 00:00:00;00 and the Reel field changes to either 001 or just goes blank/empty.

I’ve spent some hours today researching this online, reading through forums (cow and otherwise), and so far, no solutions.

I don’t know if this is relevant, maybe gives some indicator as to the problem, but when I do a Batch Capture of a clip, it is playing it TWICE in the capture process. No dropped frames along the way, it just plays through it in normal stuttery capture mode, rewinds, plays through again, leaving successful Capture (though with aforementioned Media times problem AND with occasional audio/video out of sync).

And, I don’t know if this is related or not either, but these clips sometimes capture with audio a bit out of sync (not drifting, but out of sync from beginning of captured clip). I also view these clips in QT and in the Finder, and they’re out of Sync, so it isn’t a FCP playback issue, but rather a FCP Capture issue. And, again, sometimes the clips ARE in sync.

Anybody know how to prevent any of these problems?

I’m running FCP 5.1.4, w/QT 7.4.1, OS 10.4.11.
I’m capturing from miniDV on Sony DSR-11.

[Jeremy Garchow]

The only way I could fix this was to make sure that my tapes were either df or ndf and change the firewire capture protocol to reflect whatever was on tape.

Duplicate your project first.

Jeremy

[Ted Coakley]

Thanks for your reply, Jeremy.

When you say “change the firewire capture protocol”, do you mean a setting in FCP, or elsewhere?

And, are you saying that your fix prevented the Media Start Time from changing to 00, or the Reel field from changing, or audio/video from being out of sync, or the dual playback-during-capture from happening? Or some/all the above?

Thanks,
Ted

[Jeremy Garchow]

The media starting from 0, which might fix some other problems as well.

Chnage the firewire protocol in the device settings of the log and capture window.

There’s firewire and firewire ndf. Change to whatever’s on your tape, and in my case, the type of tc changed in midtape. You have to be careful.

Jeremy

[Ted Coakley]

Yeah, I have that Log&Capture > Capture Settings > Device Control set at “FireWire NTSC”, not “FireWire NTSC NDF — because my camera only records in DropFrame mode.

Any other thoughts on it?

[Jeremy Garchow]

WIth one clip in a duplicated project, try setting it to ndf, capture that clip and see what happens.

[Ted Coakley]

Why should I try Capturing from DF video into a NDF project? What good would that do?

(sorry, I don’t get the point of that).