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Posted in FCP and Now…FCP and G5 crash upon capture
Basically when I try to capture from DVCAM through my decklink extreme my system crashes. I have trashed the perfs in FCP, tried digitizing from the Blackmagic Deck control window (which won’t work either) I have tried to capture using firewire and YRB with the RS4222 deck control thing. (not a moron just not cable/setup savvy really)
I have a Dual 2.5 G5 4gig SDRAM running FCP 4.5 HD, AE 6.5 et al.
If you can point me in a direction…I’d be grateful
I hope this link actually works. Its an fcp forum thread
https://www.creativecow.net/forum/view_thread.php?threadid=800215&forumid=8&postid=111268411269048 -
13 Replies
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It seems I have to beg to get help. Really I am in a pinch. I am not out of my league or in over my head. I have read the flipping manual and nothing zip zero zilch, I have tried everything in the book on this particular problem and nothing is working. I need to figure it out…Could my card be decklink extreme be faulty?
thanks
shan -
What do you mean capturing DV Cam through the decklink? Can’t you capture firewire? Or are you taking composite video from the deck?
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When I couldn’t get it to capture through the firewire I tried the YRB
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What model DVCAM deck are you using? Is you intention to edit uncompressed Blackmagic 8 bit or edit DV in Apple DV codec? The reason I ask is you can’t mix the two on the same timeline.
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Since it is dv its not 8bit. It is Blackmagic DV codec.
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Hi,
Do you happen to have any anti-virus software like Virex or something installed?
Regards
Kristian Lam
Blackmagic Design -
There is no “Blackmagic” DV codec. The Blackmagic codec is uncompressed. Try using one of the “easy setups” so that the pixel format will match your input. You maybe trying to capture to a nonexistent codec.
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Hi ,
can i ask you if you’ve downloaded the latest 4.8 BM drivers?
Which os and Quicktime are you Running?could you let me know if you have antivirus program on?
Try something for me.
connect your deck to the g5 throught firewire,
in fcp Go to easy setup ( ctrl q ) and select
dv-ntsc if in the states, create new sequence so it will
register the new settings.. try to capture, is this working??
close your projectnow unplug the firewire,
connect your yuv or y cable to the deck,do not forget rs422
go to esasy setup again only this time select Blackmagic dv ntsc,
create a new sequence,
then go to log and capture, make sure your deck is set to remote then
fcp should see your card without a problem..capture away…
If you have an antivirus program disable it when you do video work.
Regards
Olivier Jean
Powermedia Systems
Sydney Australia -
I have downloaded the latest drivers, I did the easy set up thing, and the hooking up via firewire and rs422. I got the same result in both setups. It would record about a second of vid then stop on a frame and digitize the frame till I told it to stop or it crashed (which it did most often) I do have virus software on it but I have now at your recommendation disabled it and am trying that next.
Thanks for your help I will let you know.
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Sounds like your FCP installation has gone weird. Trash your preferences, restart FCP. If that does not help, test your disk speed.
Regards
Francois
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