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See if a capture has dropped frames after the fact?
I’m new to editing and premiere. When I captured my MiniDV footage, often I saw that it said “4 frames dropped, etc” for some tapes and not others. I didn’t realize the importance of not having dropped frames at the time, so I kept capturing. Uggh.
Now I have hours and hours of footage, some tapes captured with no dropped frames and others with dropped frames. Is there a way to see which tapes have dropped frames and which don’t at this point? I only want to re-capture the tapes I need to, not everything.
My project is due soon, so please respond ASAP if you can.
Thanks,
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For most formats, if you right click on the clip and select properties, a Data Rate Analysis chart will show up at the bottom.
You can scroll through and any dropped frames will show up (or I should say won’t)
Vince
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I did it and I do see the data analysis chart. I see a bunch of vertical lines in blue (I’m assuming these are frames). They are all blue on the tapes I checked, but I’m pretty sure each of these tapes has dropped frames.
What do the dropped frames look like in the chart? They look all solid blue to me… so it’s still not telling me anything.
Thanks for responding.
Elizabeth -
To be honest, it’s been a very long time since I’ve had to deal with dropped frames, but if I remember well, a dropped frame would show as “no bar”. It coud be different in CS3, but it makes sense to me…
If you play back the footage it should be pretty obvious as well.
Vince
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Run a cleaning tape in your camera, that might help.
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DVMP Pro will display dropped frames. When you open/play an AVI file it displays the metadata for each frame, including the timecode – for dropped frames the media time shows up in yellow.
You can also jump forward or backward between dropped frames so you can see exactly where they are.
The File->Properties box also give the total dropped frames (if any) in the file.
There’s a demo version that you can try out.
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And for the next time around, you should find a checkbox that says “abort capture on dropped frames.” That way you’ll at least see a stopped machine, and know there is an issue.
-jeff
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