24PA mode

A = "Advanced." It's a pulldown cadence that's not quite as smooth for monitor viewing, but can be removed in real-time upon capture in FCP.
 
FYI: if you capture 24PA in FCP you will not be able to capture across breaks in your recording. Not just breaks in the time code (IE blue screen), but any breaks in recording. Took me a day to figure this out.
 
Are you referring to stopping and starting the camera? That's just not true. I've captured hundreds of tapes, and very few of them were one single shot all the way through. Explain if I'm misunderstanding you. How would the software know the difference if the time code was continuous? I could see if it hit a stray flag in the footage or something (if that's even possible), but I don't believe I've ever encountered that.
 
Flash said:
Are you referring to stopping and starting the camera? That's just not true. I've captured hundreds of tapes, and very few of them were one single shot all the way through. Explain if I'm misunderstanding you. How would the software know the difference if the time code was continuous? I could see if it hit a stray flag in the footage or something (if that's even possible), but I don't believe I've ever encountered that.
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I should have been more specific. This is the case if you are capturing 24PA and the settings in FCP for capture are DV NTSC Advanced (2:3:3:2) Pulldown Removal. In this case it is not the time code that causes the problem. Every start/stop of recording during this type of capture cases a break in the pulldown cadence for FCP and therefor creates an error.

I had this problem and googled it. I am not the only one. Every solution I found was the same and what I have just explained.

What settings you use? 24P or 24PA? and how do you capture/export? I just got my DVX and am new to 24p/24pa so I would love to find out how other people are doing it. Thanks.
 
The solution is pretty simple- log your tapes manually. It takes only a little more time and results in discrete clips for every take rather than one gigantic file per tape. You'll have better playback performance and less risk if one file becomes corrupted.

Noah
 
The solution is pretty simple- log your tapes manually. It takes only a little more time and results in discrete clips for every take rather than one gigantic file per tape. You'll have better playback performance and less risk if one file becomes corrupted.

Noah
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Agreed
 
So what WAS the solution?

I shoot mostly on the SDX900, but have a DVX at home, and the 24pA process is the same for both. I capture using a deck, not the camera, so I don't know if the issue lies there. I have had problems using the Capture Now command, but never have any issues capturing across scene changes when doing batch captures.

EDIT: Ah! Someone beat me to it.
 
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