[Todd Skougor]

yes, rs422 but it is coming in through a house router. I wonder if, during the route, something is lost. It’s coming in off a sony J3 deck, HDSDI, not firewire.

Anders,
is your deck connected DIRECTLY to the FCP system, or is it comin in through a router of some kind?

[Todd Skougor]

Yep, meat SONY HD CAM.

[Todd Skougor]

The setup is from memory. Here goes.

FCP 5.0.1 maybe…
DVCAM 1080i 29.97 source
KONA2 capturing @ DVCProHD capture preset.

This happens randomly. A restart will often clear up the problem, but not restore TC to the clips.

[Todd Skougor]

yeah,
I used the FCP scroll. Why introduce more variables?

GL,
T

[Todd Skougor]

Two things I’d look at would be the timecode on your timeline and and possibly breaking up the sequence into 2 chunks.

First, your sequence timecode MUST match your tape TC on INSERT layoffs over 5 minutes as a rule of thumb. ASSEMBLE edit to tape does not matter here. I’m assuming that your show starts at an hour (1:00:00;00+ B&T prior), so your tape TC for an INSERT layoff must match. If your sequence crosses a dropped frame that your tape does not see you will get a “Dropped frames on playback” error. So, either do an assemble edit to tape or match your sequence/tape TC.

If this doesn’t work, stripe the tape, INSERT to TAPE the show up to your problematic sequence section. Then insert the remaining sequence. Often I will get errors on export and I’ve found if you can get the show out in chunks it’s better than not at all.

GL,
Todd

[Todd Skougor]

I just did this last week. I built the credit roll first, obviously. I left a space for the small rectangular logo. I had to place the logo into the roll and key frame the motion to follow the text at the same speed. It took a few tries to match the scroll rate exactly, but when it matched it looked perfect.

I’m sure that if you have a page or so of logos you could make them a single page and insert them into your roll.

The way I did it was not an exact science, but it’s not hard. It just takes some tweaking.

GL,
Todd

[Todd Skougor]

Just in case the FCP panning doesn’t work…

It could also be your monitoring source. If you are going through a mixer make sure you physically pan each channel in it’s appropriate direction. If your channels are both panned to the center it does not matter what you do in FCP.

GL,
Todd