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Problem correctly capturing DV material via SDI
I’m trying to capture some DV footage (using a Blackmagic card) via SDI and 422 remote. Whenever I try though FCP just seems to struggle, and finds timecode breaks where there are none, and then decide to capture loads of black at the end of tapes until I tell it to stop.
Is there anyway I can get it to behave properly?
Running version 5.
Tom
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4 Replies
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Sounds like a problem with your Blackmagic card. I’d go over to the Blackmagic forum, and give your version of everything (card, driver, os, FCP, computer, etc) and see what they come up with.
Jeremy
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Try Reinstalling Drivers.. i had a similar problem, reinstalled and it started working.
hmm… I wonder what this button does…
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Why the heck wouldn’t you just capture it via FireWire?
Have a wonderful day.
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Actually it sounds like a reference video issue. I use a Blackmagic card and without setting the reference to machines and cards correctly it will (like all capture cards) see a timecode break as the frames drift.
I use a DSR 1500 and can capture DV via SDI without any problems. The only advantage to doing this is if you can see an improvement in the hardware conversion to uncompressed versus FCP doing the transcode. Personally I can’t see any difference but it makes sense if you have a few DV shots in an uncompressed sequence and don’t want to mix codecs or render. Otherwise if it is all DV, then stay Dv until the end and then drop the final into an uncompressed to render the final grade & graphics.
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