[Quin Bisset]

I have the same problem with speed changes. I shoot on P2 at 1080 50i and edit on a DV PAL timeline, even nesting the clips didnt help. Is there a better workflow I should be utilizing?
Thanks

[Quin Bisset]

Thanks guys for the prompt response. I think in the short term I’m going to try for the firewire card and hopefully that will get me through this job.
For the future would you have any solutions on the best setup both hardware and FCP for working mainly with HDV and occasionally HDCAM footage? Baring in mind the majority of my work ends up on the web and DVD…although in saying that they want to be able to supply some as full broadcast quality.

cheers and thanks again

Quin.

[Quin Bisset]

Thats right I’m downconverting via the J-H3…I just received this post on another forum whats your opion, do you think this could work…is it as simple as a firewire bandwith thing? I hope so.

cheers
Q
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You have to get a Firewire card for your card slot. I got one I love from WiebeTech. Here is what you HAVE to do to record to a laptop, in a nutshell:

1- Don’t capture to system drive, use an external FW800 drive, it’ll exceed the data pipe bandwidth. Capture Scratch disk HAS to be an external drive.

2- Don’t plug camera/deck and hard drive BOTH into laptop’s FW ports, it’ll exceed the data pipe bandwidth.

3- Plug cam/deck into the laptop’s ports, and the hard drive into the card slot port (or vise versa), this will free up the limited bandwidth of both data pipes so that you can capture without dropping frames.
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