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tape swapping between cameras for capturing — dropping frames
I used a Sony VX2100 to take video of a concert. When done I gave that camera back to it’s owner and I popped the miniDV tape into my Sony DCR-HC40. When I tried to capture the concert to my hard drive I kept getting “Drop Frame” errors about 10 seconds into the capture.
I’ve never had an issue capturing video that I recorded to tape using my DCR-HC40 and the only thing that has changed in my workflow, in this instance, was that I used the VX2100 to record the video.
I think the issue has to do with transferring the tape from one camera to another and conflicting settings between those cameras, but I’m still relatively new to this so any thoughts or suggestions about how to remedy this would be great. Thanks a bunch.
My System:
Final Cut Pro HD 4.5
Mac OSX 10.4.9
1 GHz Power PC
2 GB RAM
LaCie 250GB 7200RPM external HD (~30GB remaining) – this is my scratch driveCheers,
– Scott
Scott McAuliffe
Urchin Multimedia Design
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Try setting your device control to “non controllable device” in your capture prefs and use capture now. The only down side to this is that you will lose your timecode.
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brian,
thanks for the advice… I made my camera a “non-controllable device” and tried useing the “capture now” feature in FCP but I still ran into the same dropped frames issue. I skipped around to a couple of different points on the tape and tried “capture now” from those points, yet I still got the same result. The amount I was able to capture before a frame was dropped ranged between 10 and 45 seconds.
any other thoughts?
Cheers,
– s
Scott McAuliffe
Urchin Multimedia Design
http://www.urchinmultimedia.com
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