Why didn't I black the tapes?? HELP!!!!!!!

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Specs:

15 inch mac book pro 320 GBS Hard Drive

Canon XH-A1- shooting 24p In SD.

Sony Digital 8 Handycam- Shooting Hi-digital 8 at 60i

Final Cut Pro
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Hi,

So last week I shot this 2 hour church concert ..!

So i wouldn't bamboozle my mac with HDV footage, I shot in mini-DV

I Shot the service on a Canon XH-A1 and a older sony Digital 8 handy Cam.

Now normally when shooting HDV, there's no need to black the tapes.

I had forgotten and didn't realize till I got home and tried to capture.

Some times it captures. other times it complains about dropped frames.. and other times it converts it's to some format final cut cant read..


I've tried every thing: Deleting 150 GBS worth of content, Restarting my mac and trying different capturing settings..

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this problem..

The project is due in 4 days and I'm getting paid!!!!!

HELP!!!!

Thank you
 
You have a few compound issues.

First, I'd just capture all the footage onto an external HD FireWire. If you have been, then capture it all as capture now with non-controllable device.

That should just get the footage in.

Make sure you are using the standard dv settings for capture.

Then let us know if it works.
 
Get a 4-pin to 4-pin firewire cable, link the two cameras together and dupe the footage. When you do it over firewire like this it is lossless, so it's a clone without losing any generations, and the new tape will have unbroken timecode. I used to do this, transferring MiniDV tapes to Digital 8 as a backup.
 
CaptainMench said:
You have a few compound issues.

First, I'd just capture all the footage onto an external HD FireWire. If you have been, then capture it all as capture now with non-controllable device.

That should just get the footage in.

Make sure you are using the standard dv settings for capture.

Then let us know if it works.
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No it didn't..

When i try this it does the same thing and gives me the dropped frames error. and makes the footage so it cant be opened or viewed. With an "AV" extinction.

Help!

The deadline is growing near.
 
Do what battula says.

Plus, are you still trying to capture to your laptop's drive???

Not our problem with your deadline if you are.

CaptM
 
CaptainMench said:
Do what battula says.

Plus, are you still trying to capture to your laptop's drive???

Not our problem with your deadline if you are.

CaptM
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No I'm importing to my WD 1tr hard drive..

I was simply letting you guys know..

I'm trying to avoid that.. Cause I'll have to buy another cable.. and the next store is a VEARY long distance.
 
creepyclownproduction's said:
No I'm importing to my WD 1tr hard drive..

I was simply letting you guys know..

I'm trying to avoid that.. Cause I'll have to buy another cable.. and the next store is a VEARY long distance.
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What are you using to capture your footage. I've used my iBook and only capture to the iBook's hard disk. I've also captured to my more recent Mac Book Pro.

For 'clean' tapes, and (almost) unfragmented disk, I've not gotten drop frames. I also have had some conditions where there were dropped frames, probably due to the conditions (desert, dusty, in general shitty...) and I sent my camera in for a cleaning...

The only time when my capture really got screwed up, was on my G4 perhaps 6 years ago, and I captured from Firewire to an external Firewire disk... clobbered the disk and had to use one of those disk recovery programs to save wat I could on the disk...

Once captured to the internal drive, then I move the captured data out to a work disk.

If desperation is setting in, I'd recommend 'wild' capture, setup to ignore dropped frames, and correct audio/video synch by shifting things around.

If you captured using only one camera, and are just creating one long concert session as a continuous whole... if not there will be some point that you may want to edit, and shift the audio just enough to synch up again...

If you have multiple cameras, then all the better, as you can switch from camera to camera to hide your need to synch up...
 
#41 - Pre-blacking a tape to avoid timecode breaks.

Shane's Stock Answer #41 - Pre-blacking a tape to avoid timecode breaks.

Pre-blacking a tape to avoid timecode breaks doesn't work. It is an urban video myth. All it does is prevent your footage from starting over from 00;00;00;00. But if you record, then stop the camera to review, then stop AFTER the recorded footage, you will have a timecode break. Video cameras don't INSERT EDIT onto the tape, they ASSEMBLE EDIT. That is, they write over everything that was recorded before, including timecode. So blacking a tape does nothing, really. Only give you better chances to incur tape dropouts as you are now recording on the tape twice.

The best option is to leave the camera rolling for a few seconds after your shot so that when you review your footage, you stop the tape while you still have an image. This way, the camera will pick up where it left off.
 
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