Capturing 24p DVCPro 50 with FCP Academic - C'est possible?
by Joni Church
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Aug 13, 2008 at 4:05:45 pm
Hello,
I've got a bunch of 24p DVCpro 50 footage to capture with the Panasonic 1200A deck via firewire (was shot on the SDX-900), and I'm getting the "encountered a problem... could be source tape... etc." error when I try to capture.
The only possible reason I can come up with is that I'm using a machine that has the academic version of FCP 6.0.4 loaded (my regular machine is tied up with another project and I can't use it to test my theory), and perhaps it doesn't support DVCPro 50. Is that possible?
The deck is set to manual on 022, and 422 (#0002) on 023, as well as firewire on 600.
The DV50 Easy Setup settings don't solve the problem. The reason I'm thinking it might be the academic version is that I can capture fine using DV NTSC 48kHz. What do you think?
Re: Capturing 24p DVCPro 50 with FCP Academic - C'est possible? by Jeremy Garchow on Aug 13, 2008 at 4:40:17 pm
I think Academic is a full version of FCP, but I could be wrong. The only difference is that you can't upgrade the academic version.
It's all about the deck settings. Make sure that you don't have a tape in the deck when changing the settings. I will have to double check your posted settings to make sure that you got it all. This is definitely possible though.
Re: Capturing 24p DVCPro 50 with FCP Academic - C'est possible? by Joni Church on Aug 13, 2008 at 4:46:32 pm
Thanks a lot for your help and for double-checking.
I'm considering reverting back to my full version of FCP 5 on this machine to see if it helps, but I really don't want to do that. I've got the deck rented for one day and you know how it is when you're eating up time. I haven't had to work with DVCPro50 before, it's always been HD so this is new. I assumed it would be simpler. Ha!
Re: Capturing 24p DVCPro 50 with FCP Academic - C'est possible? by Joni Church on Aug 13, 2008 at 5:31:33 pm
Hehe, seriously though, thanks a lot for your help. No matter how confident I think I am with these Panasonic decks there's always a sneaky little menu item (or twenty) that I miss.
Re: Capturing 24p DVCPro 50 with FCP Academic - C'est possible? by Jeremy Garchow on Aug 13, 2008 at 6:31:16 pm
You don't owe me, I'm just glad you're up and running.
The 1200 is a highly menu driven deck and the interface leaves a bit to be desired as all the required settings are spread out all over. The 1400 is a bit easier to use, but it's similar.
You should see the higher end SonySR deck. You would swear you are launching the next mission to mars with that thing.
