Sudden bugs in version 6.0.3

[Steve Connor]

repair permissions, trash prefs if you haven’t already

Steve Connor
Adrenalin Television

Have you tried “Search Posts”? Enlightenment may be there.

[Catherine Ceigersmidt]

How do I repair permissions?

Cathy Runge
Mary Productions

[Catherine Ceigersmidt]

Trashed the prefs, didn’t seem to help. Now I can’t even close the log/capture window without the program freezing. By the way, I’m running OS X 10.4.11…is it time for me to upgrade to Leopard?

Cathy Runge
Mary Productions

[David Roth weiss]

Cathy,

Open a new project and see if the new one functions as it should. Its possible that your project file has become corrupted.

If it works you can copy your present timeline and bins to the new project and you should be fine.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Catherine Ceigersmidt]

Opened a new project, tried capturing, same problem. Any other suggestions?

Cathy Runge
Mary Productions

[Catherine Ceigersmidt]

Turns out Capture Now is working but it’s taking a ridiculous amount of time to start. When it does, it immediately stops and an error message pops up that says capturing aborted due to timecode break. I’ve noticed today that every time I start the tape, regardless if there’s a timecode break or not, two HUGE digital hits appear about a second apart from each other. Maybe my camera’s the problem. I just ran a head cleaner…so what’s up? Perhaps my camera needs a checkup?

Cathy Runge
Mary Productions

[Catherine Ceigersmidt]

Sorry for yet another post, but I checked the camera and there’s no digital artifacts when I watch on the camera itself, only when I’m controlling it through Final Cut/viewing it in the log/capture window. I checked my firewire connection, disconnected/reconnected the cable on both ends and tried again, to no avail. Still seeing the hits, still getting an aborted capture after a minute of lag time between when I click ‘Capture Now’ and when it actually starts.

Help?

Cathy Runge
Mary Productions

[Chris Borjis]

Try another cable. I had similar problems with a very long firewire cable that went bad.

make sure the canon cam is set for HDV on the firewire setting too just in case.

Leopard is the last thing you should be thinking about at this moment.

I’m holding out on the upgrade until I have to….can you tell 😉

[Raymond Tuquero]

I am sorry to ask … but are you capturing your footage to an external Medium?

If you are: capture a minute or so to your Main computer hard drive … if it works your External is acting up. This happened to me when my XRaid had an update and the system admin changed some things.

Also … if you are going to an external portable drive … are you capturing via Firewire 400 or 800 … funny thing … My external drives that had footage from a 400 firewire cable starting acting up after the FCP 6 update. Look into that as well.

Also … you said you had a TB … if that is internal (I assume 2 500 GB) … try capture to the other hard drive in your computer.

IF ALL OF THIS IS STILL ACTING UP … do you have another computer, perhaps a friend who has FCP that you can test is your software is acting up? … If not visit an Apple Store and test it on one of their computers … I did … you get props for knowing the software … (boost your stress a little) … put on a smile.

another thing to look into is when you are capturing HDV … have you tried turning off the check box that states make a new clip at every stop? If should be in the capture window. My capture NOW setting started acting up with that turned on when I first started capturing HDV.

Good luck at finding your culprit.

-Raymond Tuquero-
Houston Editor

[Catherine Ceigersmidt]

I’m capturing again! I figured out how to repair disk permissions to my startup hard disk using the Disk Utility. Steve was right on target!