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Still having problems with MultiCam and DVCPro50
Last week I asked about this and the recomendation was to put the media on my internal drives. I did that and I even trashed my FCP prefs as well per another post. I am still dropping frames and can’t play back longer than 4 seconds of the multicam clips. This prevents me from being able to multicam edit. I don’t know what the problem is so any help would be most appreciated.
Chris Baldwin
Shoulder High Productions
Media of the World; For the World!
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My guess is you have your timeline setup as DV/DVCPRO not DVCPRO50. OR you have your timeline setup as a different timebase than what your footage was shot.
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I’ve checked the project setup many times and I chose the DV50 Anamorphic in the easy setup mode.
I’m not sure how to check the timebase mode? Can you elaborate how to check that is setup correctly?
Thanks for the quick post!
Chris Baldwin
Shoulder High Productions
Media of the World; For the World!
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In the assets area, you should have the sequence listed in there. Right mouse click (or CONTROL+CLICK) on the sequence name and select “Sequence Settings”. It’s all in there.
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Chris,
How many angles are you trying to play simultaneously? Dropped frames are usually a bandwidth issue more than anything else. If you’ve done all of the steps suggested, then I suspect that your drives are choking on the number of streams you’re trying to play back. Do you have access to a SATA raid to test this on?
Another suggestion. Stack up video tracks (not multi cam) with as many tracks as angles in your multicam. Do a simple Picture in Picture of all angles and see if it can sustain play. If that works OK, then it’s NOT just a simple band width issue. If this “stacked” sequence doesn’t work either, then you need a RAID that can sustain the bandwidth.
Mark
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Thanks for alll the return posts…
Mark I tried the PIP technique with all three video tracks and its still crashes. What I’ve noticed now is that when I select the three tracks, chose make MultiTrack and then either drag that onto a new sequence or chose Make New MultiTrack Sequence, the media becomes 4:3 whereas before in the canvas or in the viewer the individual clips playback as 16:9. They were shot 16:9.
The clip properties state that the media is DVCPro50-NTSC 720×480 29.97 with a data rate of 7MB/sec and the Anamorphic box is checked. This matches up on the project audio video settings.
Chris Baldwin
Shoulder High Productions
Media of the World; For the World!
https://www.shoulderhigh.com
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