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I have a 17″ PowerBook with 2 GB or RAM, and editing on it works just fine. I don’t usually have a bunch of video or audio tracks

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I’m actually capturing a whole tape at a time. There aren’t (or shouldn’t be) any start/stop points on the tape because it was a continuous roll for the whole show. Footage from all of the cameras will by synced and marked as multiclips in FCP.

I have actually marked the timecode each time I get an error from Final Cut and gone back to actually create discrete clips, but I still get the error even when capturing to within a few frames of the problem timecode.

I understand that every frame ending in 2 or 7 is the split frame in 2:3:3:2 pulldown sequence

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I am capturing from a Panasonic AG-DV1000 deck (MiniDV) into Final Cut Pro 5 (I have the full Final Cut Suite) on a 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4 17″ (full specs are in my profile). I am storing footage on a 250 GB G-Drive from G-Technology.

Footage is captured at standard resolution with the advanced pulldown removal, then recompressed to Photo JPEG for “offline editing.” This is because I could not get FCP to do the advanced pulldown removal when capturing directly to Photo JPEG.

The concert was recorded using nine DVX100a cameras, and I am only having pulldown cadence issues with a couple of tapes. These tapes, as a matter of interest, are from stationary cameras that weren’t manned

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Thanks for the reply. I actually read this before posting my question.

This article talks about advanced pulldown in the context of everything going just fine when capturing. It doesn’t talk about what problems might occur (e.g., why there might be a problem in the pulldown cadence, or what might cause a problem in the pulldown cadence).