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Stuttering when digitizing DVCPro50
I’m experiencing a strange problem when digitizing DVCPro50 material into FCP. Looks like FCP drops a frame here and there during capture (through a 3 meter long firewire cable). Running latest version of FCP on a dual 2,5 G5 w/ OS X 10.4.2 and 2Gb RAM. Any ideas?
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6 Replies
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What disk are you capturing to?
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The internal “Video” disc on my the Mac. I am testing shorter firewire cables now, looks like it might help. What lengths do you use on the firewire cables (for capture)?
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I’ve used up to 80 feet (approx. 20 meters), but its not recommended.
I doubt that the 3-meter LENGTH of your FW is the problem.
It COULD be a “bad” FW cable or connector.
You say “video disk”… do you mean a separate disk from your where your Mac “system” and FCP Application are running?
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Yes, it’s a seperate disk – not the system disk – but as you may have understood, not an external disk.
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You’re looking at the footage after capture, correct? FW capture stutters and looks strange during the actual capturing process. Pay no heed to that.
Make sure FCP is set to abort on dropped frames during capture and ETT.
Sean
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Hi Sean! Yes, I am looking at already digitized footage when being played back from the timeline. I already have those options ticked.
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