Matthew Nelson
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Just a guess but I’d say you have some bad media. You could try trashing the usual suspects and then exporting but if it’s a corrupted clip I feel for you.
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Are the blocky graphics fully rendered at best quality? Have you tried taking these graphics back into AE and rendering out a SD version?
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At some point you’ll have to down convert the HDV. Have you dropped the HDV footage directly into a SD sequence? If the rendered footage is expectable to you and your client, problem solved. But at some point you’ll have to DC the HD to SD. For efficiency sake doing it upfront would be best.
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What is it you are exporting. HD, SD etc? Is what you are exporting already rendered?
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If time is of the essence I’d just deinterlace the problem clips.
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Look in easy setups for the Blackmagic DVCPRO HD settings. There is a Blackmagic 720p 23.93 DVCPRO HD setting.
I personally have never brought in P2 footage. I have only captured from a deck. It is my understanding that the footage will need to be wrapped in the blackmagic DVCPro HD codec to work with BM settings without needing to be rendered.
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Is the video on the Digibeta field reversed?
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Are you trying to capture audio that is already on your computer? If it is on your mac you should just import it into FCP. If you are trying to get around some DRM issue. Burn the audio to cd from the app you are playing it from and then copy the CD to your media drive and import into FCP.
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Is it dropping frames at the same point?
Have you tried turning off abort capture on drop frames? Sometimes I have encountered phantom dropped frames. But test this on a clip just large enough to be sure the issue would occur. Then go over the clip very carefully to see if any frames were actually dropped.
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I know you said you didn’t want to go outside of FCP but with even basic PS skills you can whip a matte together in 5 min and most likely be happier with the results.