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Saving a capture with ‘drop frame’
I am trying to capture from a MXO2 using a MacBookPro.
I want as good quality as I can get so capturing at ProRes 1080i to a FW800 drive and ‘abort on dropped frames’ selected I can get about 10 mins OK and then it drops frame, aborts and DELETES what it had already captured!I want to be able to keep what was captured so I can start again from where it left off; basically giving me what I want in segments.
Is there anyway I can get FCP to NOT delete the capture? And yes I know I can uncheck the ‘abort on dropped frames’ but then I have to manually go thru and find each drop frame instance and fix; plus the fact that the drop frame occurred was because of processor overload (built up over the 10 nmins) that would cause a flurry of dropped frames after the first one occurred.Any tricks I can do to keep the captured file?
Baz
What would I do without the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!
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Use the CAPTURE NOW option?
What drive are you using? Just curious. I think 1080i ProRes on a laptop is a tall order…unless you have a GOOD Firewire 800 RAID drive.
Shane
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What you are trying to do isn’t supposed to work. the MXO2 is codec agnostic and leaves all the processing and encoding to the host computer. A dual core laptop just doesn’t have the horsepower. It might do DVCProHD. This is one of the greatest tragedies of this box. That is, what seems to be the most interesting workflow for using it, isn’t.
I know the unavoidable comparison with the MXO2 is the IoHD from AJA. The MXO2 looks like a winner on all fronts, especially the cost. the thing is, with all the limitations that AJA box has, it contains one feature no one else does: a hardware codec for ProRes. And that is why it costs more than anything else it can compare to. That is, it can’t be compared to anything else.
If you are stuck with this workflow, capture in shorter and shorter chunks until you find the duration that doesn’t fail out. If you bought this configuration with the blessing of your reseller for just this use, get your money back and put it towards an IoHD.
You don’t get to save the aborted capture. Final Cut has always worked this way (in contrast to Avid).
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[Baz Leffler] “I am trying to capture from a MXO2 using a MacBookPro.
I want as good quality as I can get so capturing at ProRes 1080i to a FW800 drive and ‘abort on dropped frames’ “This probably won’t work as the MXO2 does not offer ProRes processing on board like the AJA IoHD does. Your laptop simply can’t process long captures and probably won’t process long playback either.
The AJA IoHD does all the ProRes encoding / decoding in hardware so editing in that format on a laptop is no problem.
You’ve run into the one big limitation of the MXO2. The only thing I can suggest is do really short captures, but there you’ll probably have issue when you try to play back a timeline.
Better yet, switch to DVCPro HD.
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You can do this with an ioHD on a laptop as the ProRes is encoded in hardware and you can then attach faster SATA storage via Express34 card.
Jeremy
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