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dhollister
09-10-2004, 12:56 PM
i have a DVX100A and FCP HD...

i have 2 problems and my guess is that they are related.

1) i am shooting in 24PA. i'm guessing that i am not capturing correctly because it always needs to render the sequence file. i know what the settings are, but they don't work. for example, i have the a/v settings set up to capture with firewire NDF at 2:3:3:2 pulldown and to default the sequences to 23.98fps. BUT when i actually CAPTURE the footage, it somehow isnt in 23.98. if i right click, go to properties, and go to Format, it says that the clip is 29.97fps. FCP seems to be confused as well, because under the Tools menu, it usually says Apply Advanced Pulldown or whatever, but instead it says Remove Advanced Pulldown because it thinks it was used, but if i actually click it, it says "Error, no clips found using the advanced pulldown" and whatnot. if i drop the clip into a 23.98 sequence, it won't work without several minutes of rendering. even though it supposdly was captured at 23.98. HELP!

2) i'm guessing this has something to do with the frame rate, but maybe not... anything i DO capture with the above problem has the sound way off sync... like a couple seconds off sync, not just a few frames. sometimes i have this problem, sometimes not. its very sporaddic, but probably 25-50% of the time, i have this problem.

any suggestions? this is so weird.... thanks a lot!

Scottdvx100
09-10-2004, 03:30 PM
Are you capturing to fast internal drive or to a firewire? Are you daisy chaining your camera through your firewire drive?
What tiemcode settings are you using in camera?
Are you batch capturing with a timecode log or hitting capture now?
Is this capture directly from the DVX or from another camera?

DVX100A should be in sync for the sound. DVX100 is off by 2 frames.
Are you checkign sound and video on computer system or output to firewire?

Do a permissions repair with disck utilities.
if necessary delete your prefs and set them up again.
Capture a short piece you know is shot in default F6 (24pa).
Put in enough head and tail handle so you can capture after a second has gone by. if the tiemcode shifts or drops when it starts to capture it will be confused.
Turn on all alerts to drop frames.