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Problem importing HDV at 25 shutter speed?
I am importing a HDV tape from camera to FCPX. It is a interview, the first minute was shot at 50 shutter speed and the rest at 25. I have tried capturing the hole tape 3 times. It will only capture the 1st minute and even though it seems to be capturing the rest, as I reach the end of tape I find that it has only captured the 1st minute. I have tried jumping to the middle of the tape and capturing, and the capture screen goes stuttering heavily and the footage won’t play back. The tape is in good condition. I gather it is something with the FCPX capture that it is not handling that shutter speed….seems ridiculous.
Any sugestions out there?
filmmaking-editing-dop-dad
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I have HDV footage from tape shot on a Sony FX1 at 25fps and there was no issue importing it. Have you tried capturing with other software to see if it’s something to do with that particular tape?
FCPX’s support for tape based workflows is pretty minimal so it wouldn’t surprise me if it had issues with some tapes & decks and not others.
Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
video * audio * post * production
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This is another one of those weird FCPX issues. The tape in question above was shot at 50Shutter speed, for some time, cut, and the interview was shot at 25 shutter speed. If I let the tape run from start to end to do a complete capture, FCPX will only capture the first part of the tape. There will be no warning or error message whatsoever, so the tape will run the hole length in camera while capturing, yet upon revision of ingested media only the first bit shot at 50 shutter speeed had been catured-ingested into computer.
I tried with another tape that was shot in the same way. Half the tape at 50 and the other at 25 shutter speed. Again as I captured the whole tape FCPX had NO error message or warning, it would seem that it was capturing everything and then I would find out by my own observation it had only ingested the first part of the tape.
Solution: I have found that if I capture the first part of tape that was shot at 50 shutter speed in one batch. Stop, quit FCPx, turn on and off camera, and now skim to the part of tape filmed at 25 shutter speed and capture that part of the tape separately it will ingest the footage.
The annoying question that arises is: if the camera man has been shooting at different shutter speeds along the same tape, and the editor logger has no idea and is just ingesting the whole tape. He will not know what has been capture and what has not, because FCPX in this case will give a warning. Very annoying.
For information sake, I am working with a Sony Z7 HDV camera for the tapes and FCPX 10.0.3
filmmaking-editing-dop-dad
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