[Ted Millich]

Oh, BTW, I’m running Leopard on a G5 dual 2.0.

[Ted Millich]

Same here. I just can’t render. Command R doesn’t do it. I started putting in and out points and then in the Sequence menu it would say In To Out on the menu and it would work. Now it doesn’t do that anymore.

It is the audio only that I have problems with. The clip was captured in iMovie, but many other clips I captured in iMovie don’t need to render the audio at all.

I get the little red line, but the computer refuses to render it! Frustrating!!

[Ted Millich]

A friend helped me and now I can capture reliably. The problem was that the tape I was using probably had parts recorded on it with different framerates or other changes. I changed settings in the camera to try to get something that would let me capture.

The solution was to set the camera up the same way for both recording and playback (1080i60) and put in a new tape. I recorded, set FCP up the same way and had no trouble at all capturing! Woohoo!!

Ted Millich
Beyond Democracy
Charlottesville, VA

[Ted Millich]

Thank you very much Kevin!

I’m a beginner and I’m not quite sure what a lot of what you wrote means. When I tried creating a black slug (I’m not sure if that’s what I did – the books aren’t much help) I got the spinning beach ball of death. It will be a few evenings before I can work on it again. I hope to get back to this forum by the end of the weekend with some positive results.

Ted

[Ted Millich]

I just upgraded my computer and got Leopard and FCS2 knowing that there will be kinks to work out. I have gotten to the point where I can reliably control in FCP the image coming from my camera (Canon XH-A1) in the log and capture dialog box. Trouble is, no matter how I’ve recorded my tests (drop or not-drop), or how I have audio/video settings I always get the same message that doesn’t make any sense to me: ‘Drop frames were detected during the last capture attempt.’

Also, in the Sequence Preset Editor I can change the timecode rate to 60 drop frame, but it NEVER stays there. I can come right back to it and it’s on 60 non-drop.

I’m a bit of a newbie and don’t even know how to try rendering, if that’s my solution. Just getting to this point has taken hours of wrestling with my computer and FCP. I just keep telling myself that one day I’ll be able to capture and edit.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Ted Millich
Charlottesville, VA