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Thinking of turning off ABORT if dropped frames
Without fail, at 15 sec mark, the all captures abort and sign that dropped frams comes up. This is across many tapes, that are hardly worn out. So I thinking for first time, of unchecking the preference to abort if there are dropped frames. I don’t like doing that, but what else can I do? The software seem to think that at 15-20 seconds in, of every tape I have there are dropped frames.
Has anyone else seen this?
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thanks
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If it is happening with ALL tapes, then the issue is likely to be with the drives you are capturing to. What sort of storage are you capturing to? How full is it? Is this to a FireWire drive where the camera/tape deck is also plugged into the FireWire?
Are you logging your tapes first, or are you using Capture Now?
The whole of FCP is inherently dependent on timecode, so dropped frames has a huge impact on being able to reliably identify and recapture video. If you’ve got broken timecode (and/or dropped frames) then FCP will have problems in the long term with this video.
Turning off abort on capture won’t make dropped frames magically reappear, it will just not have your capture fail on you. If the problem is with the tape, then you could try capturing the video in iMovie and importing it as DV into FCP (but you’ll need to re-render the audio).
Bill
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