Don Greening
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Usually capture issues crop up if you’ve recorded using the camera’s LP mode instead of SP. Since you’re using your aquisition camera as a deck we can probably rule out a head alignment problem. If only some of the tapes are causing you grief we can also rule out a potential software problem such as having to trash FCP’s preference files. The only way to be sure if it’s a tape problem or camera/FCP problem is if you recapture to another camera or deck and then try the dupe tape with FCP. Or try the offending tapes in another camera connected to your computer.
Remember, you can use an inexpensive 1 chip firewire equipped camera as a duplication deck. The transfer won’t have any adverse effect on the tape copy. Do you have any neighbors with a 1 chip camera you can borrow?
– Don
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Did you try trashing the FCP pref files?
– Don
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Half-baked case of buyer’s remorse here. I bought a 2.7 not three weeks ago. Was right in the middle of some projects and haven’t even changed everything over from my G4 yet. The other half of me is thinking that it’ll take awhile for the dual quads to get sorted out with all the 3rd parties (partys?).
But overall I’m very happy for us Mac people and for Apple in general. Exciting times, indeed. I still have my T-shirt from the 80’s that says: “friends don’t let friends use DOS.”
– Don
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You might try having a look at the electrical connections on the camera body where the lens attaches. I seem to remember someone having a similar problem and they found dirt/dust/grease residue on those contacts. If that doesn’t solve the problem then you may have to take it in for service.
– Don
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if you take the time to read the article at the link below you’ll probably have the answers to all your 24p/24pA questions. Don’t worry about the fact that the article uses Final Cut Pro and the Panasonic DVX100A as examples: the process will be the same for your Avid workflow.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/24p_in_FCP_nattress.html
– Don
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Anyone else feel free to correct me if this is innacurate but if you want your clients to be able to play your authored DVD in a consumer player you’ll have to make an mpeg 2 movie before you burn it on to your DVD. This means running your QT movie through Compressor ot iDVD. You can, of course, burn an uncompressed QT movie to a DVD but only for archiving purposes, as the transfer/bit rates are to high to play the unaltered QT movie from the disc, even in your computer.
The best codec you should use to export your QT movie from the FCP timline should be the same as your raw footage was: eg NTSC video 48khz will be the same all the way through the editing process. If your footage is PAL video 48khz, then export a QT movie from FCP using the same codec.
Compressor will do a better job than iDVD because (among other things) you can use the exact mpeg2 bit rate you need for the best results.
Hope this helps.
– Don
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Jeff,
Have a look at some tutorials by Walter Biscardi, one of this forum’s leaders. The link below will take you to the 1st of 3.
https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/biscardi_walter/FCPTravelMat1/index.html
– Don
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David,
My ‘stand dejected’ thingy was my poor attempt at levity: I stand corrected/dejected. I had read that Mark had wanted interleaved audio but had forgotten that by the time he’d asked about Compressor 1. You and Jeremy pointed this out. My fault.
– Don
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Everything you asked for is in my bio.
– Don