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Do a search of all posts and archives as this has been asked many times by many people, including myself! I was able to find quite a few threads, some of which said the same things, some had other ideas. Real-time settings, internal HD vs. external firewire drives, journaling off on your internal HDs, overlays and other sequence settings, fully rendering your sequence, exporting the entire sequence and then reimporting, capturing short clips rather than a whole tape, etc.

Good luck in your search – I have been going step by step and still haven’t figured out the problem. I never get them during capture, only playback and edit to tape, print to video.

Scott Becka, Media Central Tampa
Dual 2.0 Ghz G5 – FCP5 – DSP4

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Is having Journaling off important? If so, it may be the problem I am having. I have a dual 2.0Ghz with 4Gb ram and an internal SATA 250Gb HD but have still been experiencing dropped frames, even after going through all of the troubleshooting hints on this forum and on Apple’s support pages (turning timeline waveforms, overlays off; safe vs. unlimited RT; rendering as whole clips and re-importing, etc.

I’ve been at wit’s end and would love for this to be the issue.

Thanks, as always, for any help.

Scott Becka, Media Central Tampa
Dual 2.0 Ghz G5 – FCP5 – DSP4

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[b]Do all your clips have matched timecode?[/b]

Of course not. That would be too easy, wouldn’t it.

Thanks for the help on that. Although, page Vol. 2 p. 271 is not as detailed as that paragraph suggests in that it is a bout the most basic thing ever.

The 5.0.2 update pdf clears some of it up, though. Strangely, out of the 12 multiclip sequences I have to work with, only 8 of them worked properly. The other 4 had the new angle off sync, even though they were synced up properly. I even brought the new angle into the individual multiclip sequences and synced them up there prior to attempting to add them to the multiclip itself.

Live and learn. Thanks again.

Scott Becka, Media Central Tampa
Dual 2.0 Ghz G5 – FCP5 – DSP4

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Well, I think I have it figured out. Hopefully I am not affecting the sequence in unseen ways by doing this.

Basically, I selected all in the timeline and then dragged the new angle into the viewer, selecting “Insert new angle affiliates.”

It seems to have worked and I can now add the new angle shere I want.

Jbrad, I didn’t fully follow what you meant. I understand crreating a new multiclip, but how would I be able to keep all of my previous edits from the timeline?

I ws originally looking for something akin to After Effects where you can replace the media file but keep all of your keyframes, effects, etc. I didn’t really see anything like that in FCP unless I am missing a hotkey somewhere. I’ve only been on FCP for a few months coming off of years on Media 100, so that is entirely possible.

Thanks guys for the help. It’s greatly appreciated. These forums are such a good source of information.

Scott Becka, Media Central Tampa
Dual 2.0 Ghz G5 – FCP5 – DSP4

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Jerry, thanks so much for your response. I am running FCP5 and DSP4.

I think you nailed it on this one, though. I put my chapter markers in the clip itself, which I believe requires you to drag the clip back into the browser and export from there.

If you want to export from the timeline, you need to make your chapter markers in the sequence timeline as you stated.

Thanks again. This board is great!

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If you are in the process of logging and capturing, you can also go to to the “capture settings” tab and click on “Scratch Disks.” That will show you where you video, audio and even render files are going.

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Thanks for responding, Rick. Unfortunately,the clips I need to capture are all cover/b-roll stuff which will have multiple takes of pushes/pulls/pans/tilts on different subjects, which means I will have to pretty much go through each tape in real time to pick the best ones. Logging them all like that (hundreds of clips) and then going back to batch capture would likely take twice as long as just suffering through the mouse clicking. I just find it strange that they have a keystroke for everything except capture.

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Well, up to this point I have been pulling both into the timeline as that is how I it is done in M100. But I am having trouble just swithing between the 2 in the timeline, and thus I have been cutting out chunks of the upper layer to make the transitions work.

I am basically trying to find a way to jump back and forth between two clips already laid into the timeline and synced up. I am sure this is an easy task but like I said I am still trying to “unlearn” a lot of what I know as I try to learn the new program.

Thank you again for your help.