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Re: Thinking of turning off ABORT if dropped frames
by billlee on May 16, 2007 at 12:51:36 am

If it is happening with ALL tapes, then the issue is likely to be with the drives you are capturing to. What sort of storage are you capturing to? How full is it? Is this to a FireWire drive where the camera/tape deck is also plugged into the FireWire?

Are you logging your tapes first, or are you using Capture Now?

The whole of FCP is inherently dependent on timecode, so dropped frames has a huge impact on being able to reliably identify and recapture video. If you've got broken timecode (and/or dropped frames) then FCP will have problems in the long term with this video.

Turning off abort on capture won't make dropped frames magically reappear, it will just not have your capture fail on you. If the problem is with the tape, then you could try capturing the video in iMovie and importing it as DV into FCP (but you'll need to re-render the audio).

Bill

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Thinking of turning off ABORT if dropped frames by kevin c. on May 7, 2007 at 5:44:22 pm
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