[Blackduck]

Thanks again Gary, will try Blackmagic card.

[Blackduck]

Thanks for the thoughts so far. Yes we shot it at 60 fps and replay it in a 60 fps timeline. I must admit I haven’t kept up with the Final Cut vs Panasonic issue re PAL. Maybe its all been resolved and we can start shooting at 50… we shoot cars so 25P is no good to us. But as last I understood it, a quirk in the system means that Final Cut loads all 60 frames not just the “flagged” ones when you load via firewire and the DVCPRO codec.
We have tried shooting at other frame rates but because FInal Cut would only accept the 59.94 frequency through firewire and it appeared to always load all 60 frames anyhow we gave up trying other frame rates and just stuck with shooting at 60. (I will however check with our DOP in case he backed off to a lower frame rate for the night stuff…I heard mumblings about it giving a half stop more light or something)
We went to the DVCpro Codec to save space. Is it wrong to think that the DVC PRo codec would play “easier” on a system than uncompressed? If needs be we’ll reload through Blackmagic..but its 22 hours of footage so we are hoping not to have to. Anyone else had this problem.

[Blackduck]

Maybe no help but this was our experience. We were doing a 20 minute HD project on FCP and had the same problem. The suite uses external drives, has a dual processor G5 loaded with ram up the wazoo (8 G) and still it would not play without dropping frames… we tried everything..then for no particular reason we ditched the color bars and the timeline played out fine. (Coincidence? maybe but since then bars have become an optional extra)