[Paul Connolly]

Hello,

As an update to this issue – I bought:

G-TECH G-RAID GEN4 1TB EXTERNAL DRIVE
Sonnet Allegro Express FireWire PCI-E Card

Connected my deck and the external drive to the Sonnet PCI-E card.

Tried capturing to the internal drives – dropped frames again.

Changed the capture scratch to the new external drive – capturing successfully!

In summary – I cannot capture to the internal raid but I can capture to the external drive.

I have ran the internal drives through disk warrior and all is showing up as ok.

Can anyone shed any potential light on the cause of this?

[Paul Connolly]

Thanks for the reply Bill.

I have got “Abort Capture on Dropped Frames” ticked.
I have got on timecode break set to “warn after capture”
I am capturing by the “capture now” button (no logging etc)

The drop does not occur at a timecode break.

It is intermittent. For example, got dropped frames after ~ 5 mins.
I then rewound the tape and started again and it captured for ~ 20 mins before getting dropped frames again.

I have ruled out the tape – as I have tried this on numerous tapes. However – the one thing they have in common is “Time of Day” code rather than continous timecode.

The only devices connected to my mac are the deck and a 23″ Apple Cinema display – via firewire and usb.

I have double checked the easy setup and all seems ok – pal etc.

Any advice is appreciated as I am at a loss as to the cause.

Thanks.

[Paul Connolly]

Hello again,

I have updated the OS, FCP and QT to the latest versions.

I have used disk warrior and “techtool deluxe” to check all my drives – and all show up as ok.

However, I am still getting the dropped frames issue.

I captured 3 clips x 20 minutes – and got a dropped frame on the third clip.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Paul.

[Paul Connolly]

Thanks for the advice Michael,

I will give these a try.