[James Vancouver]

Hmm – I’m not certain what you mean. That’s my inexperience showing. I have not been trying to reverse pulldown as far as I know. I have been capturing numerous clips over several tapes in exactly the same way – no issues. I firmly believe that there’s issues with the source tapes – blips on the tape for some reason are here now, and weren’t here two years ago when it was first edited.

I’m not sure what the A-Frame thing is you’re speaking about.

Thanks for replying…
J

[James Vancouver]

Hey – I’m hoping perhaps you eventually found a solution to this problem? I’m currently experiencing the exact same problem. Strange thing is, I’m re-creating a short film scene by scene from an editor who used these exact tapes before me. Because these errors are popping up in the middle of takes, I can only assume the previous editor did not experience these errors otherwise he would not have been able to capture the clip…now I’m trying to capture the same clips, from the same tapes, and I’m getting these errors. I don’t know what to do. I thought it was a setting thing as I’m relatively new at this, but sounds like it is a timecode thing. Is there a way around it other then capturing around the cadence error (VERY time consuming to figure out its exact spot).

I’m hoping you have an answer…

J

[James Vancouver]

Don – You have been extrememly helpful – THANK YOU! It all totally makes sense to me as you’ve explained it.

Regards,
James
Vancouver

[James Vancouver]

Don – let me start by saying thanks for the reply. Very helpful.

To answer your questions…I have not been viewing the footage on a monitor other then the FCP viewer. So I will try this and see the difference. I thought it was weird that I would see this poor quality, and fuzz at the bottom of the screen. In fact, the quality is great in the viewer, but when i look at it full frame it’s terrible. So I’m thinking it’s actually blowing it up, not just making it full frame. Does that make sense? Anyway, I’ll try the monitor – thanks!

As for the exporting… This is where you lost me a little…my in-experience I’m afraid. To get some things clear first, I am using FCP-HD 4.5 and Compressor ver 1.2.1. I was planning on picking up iLife which includes iDVD, and Garage Band among other things, which i need. I am also not familiar with DVDSP – perhaps I should buy this instead…? Unfortunately, I don’t know what AC3 and A-Pack are thanks to my novice-ness. I have managed to export through Quicktime, but the files are so large I wouldn’t get much on a DVD, hence my attempts at using Compressor. If your suggestion to export video and audio separately will buy me DVD space, then I’m willing to give it a shot. Also, I’m finding that using Quicktime is taking hours for the processing…which I’m actually not too worried about. I don’t mind the waiting or the HD space, more concerned about the final product and size of it. Was hoping to burn multiple clips onto single DVD’s. Perhaps I’m not being realistic to begin with.

I haven’t yet had a chance to try your suggestions, and will require some more reading of the “Help” function. Thanks again for your suggestions, if you have anything more to add I would be most grateful.

James

PS – You’re my first forum replier! I love this thing – it’s amazing….

[James Vancouver]

Hi – I’m just starting out on FCP and to get some practice, have been capturing footage from VHS tapes. I daisy-chained the VCR to my Panasonic AG-DV2500 deck, which is firewired to the G5. I haven’t had problems capturing footage, but I have had difficulty exporting it to a size that is usable. I’ve been trying to use Compressor, but once I enter all my presets and try to “submit” it gives me this error message: “Cannot submit to batch – Unable to connect to background process”. I cannot find what this means in the Help Function and cannot figure it out…any ideas?

I know this isn’t what you posted, but your Subject heading looked similar.

Thanks in advance,
James