Easiest way to detect dropped frames?

[ustein]

Easiest way to detect dropped frames?

The stutter in pans can be bad pan, dropped frames during capture or a playback issue. Haw can I find out the original capture dropped frames?

 

[Ben_B]

Export/transcode it to a lightweight format and watch it?

 

[ustein]

>Export/transcode it to a lightweight format and watch it?

I do (PreRes LT). But how does a bad pan look much different from dropped frames?

 

[Ozpeter]

Isn't "GH1mtsCheck" supposed to do that?

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?p=1670814

 

[Peter J. DeCrescenzo]

Hi Uwe: Are you seeing dropped frames when you connect the cam directly to a TV monitor and play out directly from the cam? If so then the video was probably recorded that way. I'm not sure what would cause this (slow card? low battery? odd cam record settings?)

If it plays fine from the cam directly connected to a monitor, then frames are getting dropped somewhere else in your capture/post/compress processing ... or is your computer choking just trying to play a copy of the original video stored on your hard drive?

Which are you seeing there?

(Maybe this thread should be in the GH1 Workflow forum?)

 

[BhambuNath]

If you search this forum, there was a utility posted over somewhere which can detect the dropped frames...

 

[Martti Ekstrand]

Step through it frame by frame and check if you got other movement in the image when the pan stutters.

 

[ustein]

>Isn't "GH1mtsCheck" supposed to do that?

Works fine (but Windows only I think).

>If it plays fine from the cam directly connected to a monitor

At the time I look at it the SD card is already formatted.

I checked the Point Lobos files and they were all ok.