VFR Cadence error

[John Sharaf]

Sean,

When I had this problem, I solved by importing through Kona card HD-SDI in and let the Kona card convert to DVPRO100 codec.

JS

[Gary Adcock]

[Fine Productions] “ryign to capture varicam footage via friewire shot at 24p with varicam onto FCP sytem. I am using G-raids. I constantly get errors on clips that say error with VFR cadence. This error stops my whole sytem fro capturing. From what i gather this is a 2:3 pulldown issue with starting and stoppign the camera.”

Cadence issues in FCP normally are a result of the pulldown pattern changing. Starting and stopping are one form, speed changes or speed ramping is another.

TURN ON capture thru time code breaks in the Users settings FCP
Stop trying to capture the entire tape as one file.
Set in and out points on every clip you capture
Capture at 59.94 and then run the file thru the software FRC.
DO NOT use “Capture Now” because while FCP can determine the starting cadence- it cannot determine where to end without a fixed out point on for the capture.

[Fine Productions] “I am using a 2ghz G5 dual processor with FCP HD. I also have a Kona LH card.”

this is less of an issue in FCP v5 or as JS said — capture over HDSDI back to the DVCPROHD codec via the kona

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows
Chicago, IL