[Denise Powers]

Thanks. Doing that now. Tried the other night, but hard drive was too full, so had to move stuff off. Basically, some of the clips are failing to render completely–or at least there are little residual orange marks in the bar where the render indicator is. I can’t figure out what’s wrong with the clips, though–they’re just video images, no titles or animations.

[Denise Powers]

Hi, thanks for responding so quickly. I did just notice as I went through the footage frame-by-frame that the frame rate in the timeline is 25 ps even though all the info in the info box corresponds to the original file.

When I export, I’m getting errors like “failed due to an error in frame 293,” so basically I’m dividing 293 by 25 to figure out which clip is causing the problem and then replacing it with something else. Perhaps it’s coincidental that the problems are all happening with the NTSC footage. So far, it’s stuff from the B-rolls, so it’s easy enough to pop something else it, but if it happens with an interview segment, I’ll have a real problem…

Any clue what’s causing this?

[Denise Powers]

Hi Carsten,

Thanks very much for your response. Sorry for the follow-up questions, but since I’m new to this, I just need to clarify a couple of things…

Since I only have FCP X (and not 7), I eventually have to work with it, so by “skipping it” do you mean that I’m supposed to use Compressor to capture the footage from the DVCAM cassettes into the computer? I’m using Compressor 4 & I can’t find that capability–the only thing I seem to be able to do is work with already existing digital video files (that have to get onto the computer somehow).

Thanks for your help!

Denise