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Recapture issue on a deadline HELP
Running FCP 6.05 on a MacPro 2-dual core (Tiger 10.latest), 4 gigs RAM, AJA IOHD
I’ve just started recapturing 16 hours of DVCPROHD 59.94 material on a Panasonic HD1400 deck I’ve got for 24 hours, including the 3 hour drive to San Francisco to pick up and return. I won’t be getting much sleep tonight…
Anyway, I recaptured the first reel using the batch capture command in the bin’s media file context menu, then checked my sequence. It’s showing up, but displaying a red render line. I went through all settings, project and sequence, even the media items in the bins. Everything looks normal, but it plays as ‘unrendered’ in the canvas.
The only strange thing I found was on the batch capture dialogue where the capture is launched. In the info summary it read:’
“Using AJA 8-bit digitizer for video input
720p59.94 (1280×720) PALPAL? Has anyone encountered this or can check the codec description if you have an AJA? I don’t know if this is just a text error in the description, but something ain’t right. I can’t call AJA until morning and by then I’ll have lost 13 of my 16 hours.
I guess worst case I can render the entire 2 hour sequence (the edit is locked) but I’d like to have it the way it should be (wouldn’t we all!)
Ken Nicholson
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YOu should figure out how to not use the the AJA capture board, and have it do the capture through firewire. The AJA board capture will turn your footage into 50Hz material, which I assume it is not. There used to be an easy setup for DVCPRO HD in the setup menus.
Other than that not sure I can help more but you really do not want to do what the machine is set up to do, you need to set it up to a 1394 capture.
Best,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HVX200, DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
I spoke to AJA this morning and they said it is merely a bug in the description of the Batch Capture dialog. It is in fact, as all displayed parameters support, NTSC.
My render line issue turned out to be caused by a doubling of the filters applied to each clip. There are 1,807 clips in the concert, and there were an average of 2 filters per clip (some had 3). I asked the band to rehire the fired lighting director so I could fire him again. 😉
Somehow every one of the clips’ filters got doubled so there were 4 and sometimes 6 filters per clip. This resulted in the sequence being unplayable. Fortunately there was a duplicate sequence that did not have this issue.
Ken Nicholson
UpShot Productions
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