[Tom Matthies]

Make your clips offline (delete from disk) and then, in the browser and under the “Tracks” column, control click on the “V” (video only) next to each clip. you should then get a pop-up menu with alternate choices. Just select the audio/video combination you desire and recapture.
I just make the same mistake yesterday.
Tom

[Tom Matthies]

Man, am I the only person that still used QuickTime Pro to convert an mp3 to an aiff?
Jeez…am I getting old or what? Now, pardon me whilst I cue up my quad tapes.
Tom

[Tom Matthies]

Also make sure that your deck is set to record the lines that the CC info is on. On many decks, you have the option of either recording or blanking the lines used for CC information. Check the menu setups on the D-9 deck and see if you might be an option to either pass or blank those particular lines.
Just a thought…

Tom

[Tom Matthies]

I’m running a Firestore FS-3 disc drive on the back of my JVC-DV700 camera. It has a built-in time lapse record feature that is pretty nifty. You can set it to capture a single frame of video at just about any time interval up to 24 hours. It will grab a series of video frames and save them, as a Quicktime movie (or whatever) to it’s removable hard drive. All that is required then, is to simply copy it to your editing computer and import the clip into FCP.
That’s all there is to it.
I’ve used the feature a number of times and got great results without burning up a lot of tape or camcorder heads.
Tom

[Tom Matthies]

check and make sure that the little green speaker icon at the far left of the timeline is “turned on”. If it’s turned off, it mutes the sound from that track and also darkens the track on the timeline.
Tom

[Tom Matthies]

I’ve had a problem similar to yours. I tracked it down to a pair of Lacie FW800 drives that were over heating. The longer I left the system running, the more difficult it was to get a finished project out of the computer. Even though the Lacie drives are in the open in the room, they tend to run hot. They have no internal fans and rely on the aluminum cases to act as a heat sink. I put a small fan on them to help cool them down on days when they get a little cranky. After running the fan a short time, and allowing them to cool, everything gets back to being reliable again. I don’t know what kinds of drives you’re running, but make sure that they are cool and happy. It does sound like a heat related drive problem. Might be worth a try.
Tom

[Tom Matthies]

Actually, I’ve remapped the Avid keyboard to mimic the FCP setup.
How times have changed.
Tom

[Tom Matthies]

Nope.
It’s been annoying the heck out of me too.
Tom

[Tom Matthies]

Loss of quality at the transmitting end isn’t anything new these days. Any of you old enough to have been in the broadcasting industry before satellite know this. If you could see the difference in the quality of a network signal at it’s originating studio as compared to after it traveled hundreds of miles through co-ax and microwave relay centers to the local affiliates, you would have been shocked! It was truly amazing how good a program looked at the studio compared to what it looked after being received at home. As “bad” as you think todays digital compression and transmission look, the degraduation of the signal was FAR worse in the pre-satellite, analog days. Satellite transmission cleaned up the picture a lot, especially in the audio department, but the transmission chain was still just a bunch of analog compromises set in a long string from the Network to the viewer. Digital content delivery though, still has a long way to go and will depend largely on how much compression is applied (read: how greedy is the broadcaster). Broadcast quality is an exact science and a subjective one all at the same time. With all of today’s delivery formats, I fear it will only get worse before it gets better. I now have people sending me (with alarming regularity) DVD source materials for use in productions. Yikes! To some, the phrase “it’s digital” seems to justify any piece of crap material that can be utilized in a produstion. The process of all digital production/editing is facing quality problems like never before. It’s up to us to at least attempt to educate our clients and do our best to keep things looking as good as possible for as long as possible.
So, despite all of the problems digital transmission faces today, it’s still a step in the right direction.
Now, if I could only say the same thing about the content od today’s programming…
Tom

[Tom Matthies]

FWIW, I’m using Lacie drives in striped configurations both at work and at home and I’ve never had a problem with file corruption…ever.
I’m running eight drives as four pairs and so far so good. Of course, by saying this, I’ve probably just put the whammy on them. Damn…
Tom