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Problems ingesting HDV
I shot a long “talking head” segment on a Sony HVR-V1U camera. We have a Sony HVR-M25U deck hooked up to our FCP system. We have the M25U hooked up so that we can take the component out of the deck into a Kona card.
Recently, when ingesting footage into FCP, everything stopped right in the middle of a take, and then rewound and started ingesting again pretty much at the same spot where it previously stopped. I tried to ingest this take several times, and the same thing happened every time. Then I switched to ingesting the video as DV thru the Firewire cable, and everything worked fine.
Anyone have any ideas what’s going on? Why will this work when using Firewire, but not work with component connections?
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Sounds like the timecode is weak or something, and FW is reading it OK, but only when setup thru FW.
I’ll bet it might capture OK useing non controllable device and just crashing in the record using capture now thru the Kona. Then you could change the TC to what is proper after the capture using the modify timecode command.
Jerry
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I tried “crashing” in using the “capture now” button….same result. It stopped in the exact same spot. One thought I had….could this be a drop-frame, non-drop frame issue? If my camera is recording drop frame, but I’ve told FCP to use non-drop frame, will FCP get confused when it comes across that spot where the frame got dropped?
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If you are ingesting a drop frame tape and it hit’s a timecode break, the program is set up to rewind a bit and find exactly where the break occurs and then start a new clip at the beginning of the new timecode. When you ingest a drop frame tape but tell the system to record non-drop frame timecode, it looks for the wrong time when rewinding and gets really confused. This happened to me once when recording a drop frame tape with a 720p60 codec (non-drop codec). I would start with a capture now and every time it hit a timecode break, I would abort the capture, scroll forward a bit and do a new capure now. It seemed to work pretty well but I had to babysit the capture.
Mike
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Mike,
You described EXACTLY what was happening. I’ll go check to make sure my settings on drop frame/non-drop frame are the same on both camera and FCP.
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Two other things to consider…
One… ALWAYS stripe your tapes. HDV is a great format but timecode is weak on these machines without pre-striping your tapes first.
Two… Set FCP in the Preferences to Warn After Capture and this will stop your machine from constantly re-cuing and continuing.
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Did you also change the device control setting to “Non Controllable Device”? this should get it in OK…
You might also dub the tape… get new TC that way.
Jerry
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