Re: DVCProHD capture 24p VariCam

Thanks Sam!

That's exactly the kind of hint I was looking for. I did use the easy set-up for DCVProHD 24 capture, but still ended up with duplicate frames. I'll try importing into the timeline and getting it to play smoothly. When I tried that before, the playback was mostly jerky garbage, like FCP couldn't decode it properly in a 24p timeline, but I'll play with various start frames.

-testing-

Unfortunately, I just placed a clip in a 24p timeline and adjusted the start frame, step by step through about 10 frames and never could get it to play clean. It cycles clean/static at about 3 cycles per second. 10 frames should go through the entire 3:2:2:3 (or 3:2:3:2) sequence and get the right frame cued up at some point....

I also could not get the DVCPro Framerate Converter utility to work on these clips, I get errors stating: "An error occurred during processing. Unable to conform source media".

I never got any dropped frame messages or any errors during capture and the clips play fine in Quicktime outside FCP or in a FCP 60p timeline. Stepping through them they are obviously 60 fps, but the image only moves every second or third frame...

What if I put the clip on a 60p timeline and output (export) a DVCProHD24 quicktime - will it re-encode and cause another generation of compression?

Rob Ikenberry