[Candice Young]

Neil,

I just want to first say thank you so much for taking the time to respond back to me. I tried all of those solutions, changing the sequence settings to match the rate that I captured at, initially using a firewire to capture to my hard drive. The only thing I didn’t try (which is such a bonehead move on my part) was to trash my preferences. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that since that is the first thing I usually do when I have an issue. I unfortunately had to give the tapes backs and I rarely work with DV personally, so I can’t test this out. Even when I checked the QT’s in the Finder, they were out fo sync as well on all 3 computers. So I feel like I was missing a setting or perhaps had a wrong set-up. It could have been a preferences issue, maybe FCP was reading the old list for capture settings, although I don’t know if the preferences list would have information on capture settings. I will definitely keep this in mind in the future in case I run into this again. Just because I don’t usually work with DV, doesn’t mean that people don’t still use it! Thanks again for your help.

Candice

[Candice Young]

Oh and Im running OSX v.10.6.4

[Candice Young]

Thanks for the post Stephen! I’ve ran updates as well (sorry I forgot to mention that) and have tried different projects that had different fonts. I can’t even get the HUD to work so I can’t even change the font in a particular project but I’ve tried on other projects and used their font style and still get the same issue. As promised here are some specs on the computer, maybe the culprit lies there but Im sure it’s a re-install fix that is required here…

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro6,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s
Boot ROM Version: MBP61.0057.B0C
SMC Version (system): 1.58f16
Serial Number (system): 73118082AGW
Hardware UUID: 2952BD56-8068-5A8F-B55A-A4223C017187
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled

[Candice Young]

capture with an HD capture card connected to the camera via Component.

Hello,

I see this post is from a while ago but can you explain this more? what is Compoent and how do I get a capture card? I know this is probably a silly question but Im trying to do the same thing with legal video myself. Thanks for your help

Candice

[Candice Young]

From what I understand the camera was never turned off, I talked with the photog and he assured me that it was filming straight through the entire time. Also the clips are exactly 5 min long so I don’t think he could be that precise turning it on/off. I just cant tell if it would happen again with a similar piece or if that is what is causing my audio issues.

[Candice Young]

The footage was just a seminar on one camera and its all on one card and when I stared log and transfer it had already had the clips broken up even though there were no breaks that’s why I was wondering is this is a new setting and any large project I do will break it up or if I maybe have a setting selected that shouldn’t be or what

[Candice Young]

I wasn’t at the shoot so I’m not 100% sure if the camera was stopped but the photog assured me he did not turn off the camera at any point and all the clips are exactly 5 min long (I can edit them together with no breaks in between) so I don’t think that he could have been that precise turning on/off.