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  • Sondra Reisman

    January 22, 2008 at 10:20 pm in reply to: Video Dropout/Dropped frames during Capture without error messages

    Thanks for all of your help Jeremy! I really appreciate it. I asked so many different people before posting on here. I’m striving to become a technophile but not quite there yet. 😉 I’ll let you know how it works out!

    -Sondra

  • Sondra Reisman

    January 22, 2008 at 9:38 pm in reply to: Video Dropout/Dropped frames during Capture without error messages

    Oh… well, I just looked in the About This Mac section under PCI cards and it says “No information found”. I just assumed that I had one. Does that mean that I don’t have one installed or that my computer just isn’t recognizing it?

  • Sondra Reisman

    January 21, 2008 at 12:29 pm in reply to: Video Dropout/Dropped frames during Capture without error messages

    Hi again. Well, I’m still waiting on a friend to get back to me about the camera but I did reload my system tonight and updated all of the software. All that’s on it now is OS 10.4.11 and Final Cut Studio. I tried capturing again. There were still dropped frames but not as frequent. So, I decided to try capturing to my internal drive again… and it worked!

    So, I have somewhat of a solution for the time being. I’ll just have to capture as much as I can to my internal HD and then copy the files to the external. Now I’m wondering if it’s the external HD that’s the problem. I guess it could be, but I don’t know why it would work perfectly with my friend’s G4 and it worked great on my G3 laptop (before my laptop died), but not on my G5. Have you heard of different brands of drives creating problems with G5’s? The one that was given to me for this project is a Seagate Freeagent Pro/750 GB drive.

    Anyway, thanks for the suggestions Jeremy. You’ve been very helpful. One step closer… 😉 ;0

  • Sondra Reisman

    January 18, 2008 at 11:36 pm in reply to: Video Dropout/Dropped frames during Capture without error messages

    Thanks, but I tried that a few months ago when this problem first started. Also, the external drive works fine on other people’s computers so I know it’s not that.

  • Sondra Reisman

    January 18, 2008 at 1:02 am in reply to: Video Dropout/Dropped frames during Capture without error messages

    Yeah, it is. Sorry if that wasn’t made clear before. It’s a very old camcorder that I borrowed for a project. Mini DV, NTSC… I think there may be a compatibility issue with it on a G5. The person who lent it to me uses it on his G4 and has no problems. I’ve heard that some camcorders can give you problems when capturing in FCP.

  • Sondra Reisman

    January 18, 2008 at 12:31 am in reply to: Video Dropout/Dropped frames during Capture without error messages

    I wrote the software and equipment I’m using in the beg. of the post. Did you mean something else?

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