[Joel Peregrine]

Nice that its in a script form. This has been possible with a terminal command. In fact any app will work this way. I’ve been working with two or three instances of Roxio’s Toast with this to burn multiple discs or different discs at the same time to more than one burner. Just change this simple command with the app in place:

https://tr.im/jGFa

[Joel Peregrine]

Hi Andrew,

I feel your pain. I had the same problem a few times over years and in both cases sectors on the drive had gone bad. I still have one of the drives that I use for backups – works fine because the one file that wouldn’t transfer due to a -36 error is still on there. I just know that that part of the drive is toast. What I had to do was narrow down the problem file(s) by transferring each file individually until I hit the one with the error. Then I went in and started segmenting that file with partial exports of the file from within FCP until I hit one that didn’t work – then came at it again from the back end of the file. I was able to salvage nearly the entire clip. I hope that makes sense.

[Joel Peregrine]

Try this app to capture the tape:

https://www.bigmugsoftware.com/capture/

It has a trial period. Works where nothing else will – its not constrained by QuickTime, so in addition to capturing right over timecode breaks you can capture more than one source at a time. The synch of the capture will be off if there is timecode weirdness, but you’ll get it captured and can synch it up on the timeline…

[Joel Peregrine]

You didn’t mention what format you’re capturing. For HDV and DV captures with TC breaks I use Capture Magic HD:

https://bigmugsoftware.com/capture/

I believe it works outside the framework of QuickTime, so multiple stream captures as well as capturing through breaks is possible. It plows right through any tape – tapes that would make FCP choke over and over. The only thing you need to look out for is audio synch issues.

[Joel Peregrine]

Hi Pat,

This is a place to start:

https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

Their recommendation right now for the Mac Pro is ‘Don’t buy. Updates soon.’

[Joel Peregrine]

I assume this filter does not exist?

[Joel Peregrine]

Cancel the encode and check your assets. That number should continue to go down. If it doesn’t it never will…

[Joel Peregrine]

As Don mentioned system maintenance is important, as is the codec and sequence settings. This article was immensely helpful to me for the settings that ‘should’ be the fastest way to work with HD:

https://edu.moviola.com/hdv_prores#new_easysetups

[Joel Peregrine]

Hi,

There are a lot of reasons, some of which may have to do with the codec you’re using, but the most important is the processor. Lets say you have the fastest Powerbook that was made, a 1.7 gHz G4. On primatelabs.ca it rates at 859. The fastest computer, an 8 core Mac Pro, is literally 10x’s faster at 8565. You can check out other ratings here:

https://www.primatelabs.ca/blog/2008/06/mac-performance-june-2008/

[Joel Peregrine]

“I’ll bet you paid a lot for that DVD Recorder. Not because FCP could see it. The first units were very pricey.”

This was literally back when I was still on FCP3/OS9. I remember PC users saying it wasn’t being recognized by their computers. It was the first model they came out with that had a hard drive built in, which was really handy. The menus were really ugly and you had to have one – no autoplay option. Compared to what they go for today it was expensive – in the $850 range. I got a third of that back a year later on eBay.