[Shana Mchugh]

Thanks David, it worked like a charm. Do you know what I did to cause this?
Also, glad to hear that partitioning will do me no good.
Thanks again!

when mac is happy, I am happy

[Shana Mchugh]

Here’s an update.
I recaptured the footage to one of the computers internal hard-drives. All seemed to be fine. I captured three tapes with out changing a thing. When I opened the project the first tape had issues with the audio. It said it was recorded at 47.897 (this .— varies).
The problem seems to be with breaks in the timecode on the DVC pro50 tape. Even when the camera was put into stand-by Final Cut would get confused and capture unnecessary frames then attempt to fit the audio to the captured video.
In Final Cut, if timecode breaks “warn after capture” was selected.
I went back and logged new clips based on time code breaks and I was able to solve the problem in the slowest way possible.

[Shana Mchugh]

If frames are dropped final cut warns me. It did not say frames were dropped. I didn’t think it was possible to capture at a slower frame rate.

[Shana Mchugh]

External was OSX extended.

[Shana Mchugh]

Client said that footage on AFX was 16fps, looked myself and it is 29.97.

[Shana Mchugh]

I just did a test and digitized the same footage to my hard drive.
Quicktime info
Problem footage, captured to external firewire drive – 16 FPS/34.01mbs
Test footage digitized to computer 29.94 FPS/59.08mbs

On an NTSC monitor the test footage plays back fine, and the problem footage is choppy.

The settings in Final cut are the same, the only difference is the drive that the media was recorded to. Is it possible for final cut to record capture at a lower frame rate?

Thanks for the quick replies earlier. I appreciate your help.

~shana

[Shana Mchugh]

I have to ask, why should I not be worried that Quicktime and AFX see and play the footage at 16fps?

[Shana Mchugh]

Lower first is selcted in the sequence settings, and no render is necessary. The play back in the monitor is choppy. It looks like what I see in final cut.

[Shana Mchugh]

I am viewing it on the computer and just tested it on my NTSC monitor. On the NTSC monitor it does not not have the banding but is still choppy. It’s final output is an interactive DVD to be played on the computer.

when mac is happy, I am happy

[Shana Mchugh]

I should also mention that it was shot 4:3

when mac is happy, I am happy