[Janelle Mccuen]

okay.., huge breakthrough.
i captured an 8 minute clip using preset DVCPRO 720p60. it seemed to hold sync when watched in the viewer (where others didn’t). though i wanted to do a direct comparison to the 720p30 clip that it was intended to duplicate.

i grabbed the 720p60 clip and dragged it to the timeline, told the timeline to match the settings of the clip. then grabbed the 720p30 captured clip from viewer, dragged to timeline and played both. both were in sync. then i grabbed other 28 and 29 minute clips that play out of sync in the viewer and they are now playing in sync in the timeline.

this is the quick fix i was praying for. i don’t know why this didn’t work when i tried to do it the first time (2+ hours ago) when i just went into sequence settings and changed to 720p60 there. (perhaps the clip was already in the TL when i did that….) anyway. i am brilliantly happy to have a fix that will salvage the last 30 hours of capturing.

my only question now is this…
40 tapes have been captured as 720p30. should i continue to capture in this manner to keep all the media for this project consistent? or should i change my preset to 720p60 now?

this feels like an important choice.
thanks again for your expert assistance.

[Janelle Mccuen]

[walter biscardi] “The only reason for sync issues that I can see if your actual monitoring of the audio on your system. Ensure that your audio monitoring is in sync to your external video monitor.”

i am monitoring using the FCP interface (viewer window & canvas) with audio output set to: built in device. definitely seeing sync loss.

my settings are:
sequence preset: DVCPRO HD – 720p30
capture preset: DVCPRO HD – 720p30 48kHz
Device Control Preset: DVCPRO HD FireWire
Video Playback: DVCPRO HD (720p60) (1280 x 720)
Audio Playback: Built-in Output

from your response it sounds like i am set up properly, though might benefit from changing my capture preset to DVCPRO HD 720p60. is that correct?

i will run a couple of tests capturing at 720p60 to see if anything changes.

[walter biscardi] “FCP does not support Drop Frame in 720p. Never has, no idea if it ever will. I’ve been asking for this for over three years now.”

how will the fact that FCP does not support drop frame in 720p affect me?

thanks so much for your help this early sunday morning. you are a godsend!

[Janelle Mccuen]

Set up our system following the above advice, though at RAID 5 could not capture without dropping frames after 2-3 minutes.

I reset our internal RAID to level 0 (Apple RAID card and 3 750GB seagate drives). The boot drive stands alone (750GB Apple drive, running at JBOD). I brought in a LaCie “Bigger” drive to function as a backup device for our RAID. It’s not involved in the capture loop.

I have logged several tapes (just setting in and out points leaving plenty of handle at head and tail for pre/post roll) and am using batch capture to try and capture. I have checked my settings, I have the RAID selected as my scratch disk, I have turned off system power settings (energy saver, screen saver, etc.), I have run disk utility on all drives, checked out the drives using RAID utility and all seems great. still getting these dropped frames failures though… AT RAID 0.
so now i am a bit lost as to what could be causing this.

using DVCPRO HD 1400 deck
easy set up is: DVCPRO HD, 29.97, 720p30.

any insight or tips would be huge right now. the clock is ticking on our deck rental and i am starting to get a bit nervous. i have successfully captured only one 29 minute clip/tape.

help!!!