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Unable to get frame accurate captures in FCP! Any ideas?
I’m capturing some reshoot footage for a short film that I’m editing, and I cannot, for the life of me, get FCP to give me frame accurate captures.
The footage is on a Digi-Beta, and it has been telelcined from film. My in-points and out-points are all on 0 & 5 frames so that I can reverse telecine all of my footage down to 23.98. It seemed fine when I was logging, but then when I was finished capturing I compared the timecode on my clips to the timecode on my tape and many of the clips were off by ONE FRAME!
The captured clip will say that my timecode is, say 04:50:22:00, but the image is one frame off from what’s on the tape! I know this for sure, for when I reverse telecine the footage, it doesn’t work. Many of my in-points are B-frames not A-frames even though they say they start on the 0 or 5.
I’ve done this many many times before and I’ve never had this issue. FCP has always been frame accurate for me.
I’m on a G5, 2.5 GHz, FCP 5.0.4. I’m using a Blackmagic HD Pro Card connected via RS 422 to a Sony DVW-A500 Digi-Beta deck. Both the deck and the card are connected to a house reference signal. I’m capturing via SDI.
I would set a timecode offset if it was consistent, but it is NOT CONSISTENT. This is driving me crazy. I need accurate timecode becuase I will eventually be matching back to an HD master.
Has anyone had this experience before? Is there something wrong with my Blackmagic Set-Up? Is there a bug in this version of FCP that I don’t know about? Any ideas?
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Apparently, the Blackmagic 5.6.1 Drivers have a bug. And this is the bug. Big thanks go to Kristian with BM support for identifying the issue and hooking me up with the older drivers.
Warning to other BM users!!! If you are using drivers newer than 5.5 your captures may be ONE FRAME off. Seems insane, right? Check it out.
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Is this fixed in the Blackmagic 5.6.2 Drivers ?
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