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Printing to Tape- Dropped Frames Error
Hi All-
I have an hour and a half features on my G5 (4GB DDR SDRAM, Dual 2.3GHz) shot on the DVX 24pa and heavily color corrected with Magic Bulletsoftware, nested within one timeline.
I need to make a DVCAM dub of the feature via firewire, however, I am encountering hours upon hours of errors when “Printing to tape”
I am using a 2:2:2:4 pulldown and as I’ve learned my G5 can’t handle any other pullldown patterns. The errors I am encountering are as follows;
When I print to tape (with mirrored desktop), I make it about 43 minutes in and everytime, the same frame drops and goes to black. Is it possible some media is corrupt? Any suggestions on this?
When I print to tape (without the mirrored desktop), the opening color bars/slates/black rapidly flicker, then, once the features comes on, it plays fine except for a few occansional flickers- which is still problematic.
I have successfully laid this feature to Dvcam several months prior, so I know my computer has been able to handle it before, but now, I am having all sorts of trouble
Any advice is appreciated.
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The only thing I can suggest is using a deck with machine control. Do an Edit-to-tape. If it drops a frame an hour in, set a new in point and pick it up from there. Unfortunately, I have to do this a lot more than I would like. It wastes tons of time. Make sure you check your edit. FCP is not always frame accurate.
A way to check if it’s the media that’s corrupt: Set your in-point a minute or so before the suspect clip. Do your print to tape. If it drops at the same clip, probably a media (or render) problem. If it keeps going, then it’s probably something with your disks not keeping up.
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