[Kevin C.]

Shot, I understood the gist of that, and it bring up issue did not think of, that it could be fault of drive.
I just got brand new Seagates 750 externals, I will test on my older Lacie d2 and see what happens. thanks

[Kevin C.]

thanks

[Kevin C.]

thanks Shotsave for the more coherent post.
The analysis is wrong though. This is a 750GB hardrive with over 400 GB of free space. I only catpured a few seconds of video. Yet the hardrive said 748 GB of hard drive was used up. Bizarre. When I deleted the project file from hard drive, issue cleared up. Still don’t get that.

Now on issue of capturing.
Without fail, at 15 sec mark, all captures abort and the dialogue box that there are dropped frames comes up. This is across many tapes, that are hardly worn out. So I thinking for first time, of unchecking the preference to abort if there are dropped frames. I don’t like doing that, but what else can I do? The software seem to think that at 15-20 seconds in, of every tape I have there are dropped frames.

The “can’t recognize camera” only happened when I tried to capture in Quicktime. That never happened with Final Cut.

But another bizarre thing happened also: on one tape, capture aborted becuse of no footage on tape (and there was footage)

[Kevin C.]

thanks Enzo, understood almost nothing from your reply though.

[Kevin C.]

Hmm Don:
I don’t even know what on the mini DV if it’s quicktime or what yet

[Kevin C.]

Thax :
thanks. so you definitely think that FCP express is better route than Quick Time Pro?

[Kevin C.]

thanks guys, it’s so much faster to mini disc, than having to set up XLR converter, mike etc, but of course I’d have to convert the MD to CD (anologue maybe) as editors can’t input an MD.

[Kevin C.]

thanks Mark:
I assume you use two camcorders to back up.?

[Kevin C.]

thanks Matt:
cool. would be a nice thing though.

[Kevin C.]

thanks Gary,
it’s a fascinating subject.
Coming from a still photo background, it’s interesting, that I can do a digital shoots, and back up four times. On 2 dvd’s and two hardrives.

But that’s only a few Gigs of photo RAWS. Sad that video, especially, coming from the mini DV, is so much more of a hassle. Still, not sure yet if I can bear idea of shooting few actors for 8 hours and then sending it out the “only’ copy to an editor ….