Drop Frames

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DVX100Shooter

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Someone on here suggested that I select Firewire NTSC NDF I just attempted to capture 26 clips in a batch capture and 11 of the clips had ERROR messages because they had drop frames. How do I get around this? When I tried to do CAPTURE NOW on those clips one by one, FCP unexpectedly quit!
 
Re: Drop Frames

Check your setup. Is you drive fast enough and do you have plenty (1-2GB) of free space on your boot drive for the system?
Try captuing just a couple of short clips.
Are you seeing broken timecode or is there a specific error or just dropping frames?
Are you connecting your camera and a firewire drive at the same time?
Are you daisy chain the camera and drive?
 
Re: Drop Frames

Okay what I did was cleared the Log and Capture screen then brought it back up and selected all the clips again and did a batch capture and it worked fine. A couple of times though, the capture when haywire meaning it kept capturing after the outpoint I put in! What I realized is that I put the wrong outpoint in. Now here is something strange as well. When I did the initial batch capture it captured all but 11 clips. I had 26 clips total. Then FCP quit. When I brought it back up all the clips had the red slash through it! So I had to overwrite all the clips I just captured and everything is fine now.

I am using a 1.8 G5 with the 160gig HD, and 120gig extra HD and 120 gig external FW HD

No timecodes were broken. I shot on one tape and never took the tape out of the camera.

I usually keep the FW plugged into the computer and I only plug it into the camera after I turn the camera on.

I am unclear what you mean by daisy chaining the camera and drive. I just have the camera going straight to the drive.
 
Re: Drop Frames

Time code can break even if you don't take the tape out. Just make sure it's not 0 before you roll any take after your first one. There's a button on the top right behind the zoom called Rec Check that will auto rewind and set time code.

Daisy chaining it is when you plug it into the drive and the drive into the computer. This works for some people and doesn't work for others since the computer has to move the data from the camera by way of the drive and then back out to the drive. You might try a test capturing from the firewire port directly into the internal drive or using the camera on one firewire port and your firewire drive on the other. Note though all Mac computers internally have 1 firewire port so some people get a firewire card. Also note that FireWire drives are technically approved for FCp although a lot of people use them.
 
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