FCP Digitizing Issue with DVCAM down-converted from Canon XH-A1
by Emily Auer
on
Jul 6, 2008 at 1:51:22 am
I am an event videographer who has recently moved over to reality TV producing. (I know, I know, ironic, isn't it?) I hired a shooter for a Bat Mitzvah on June 7th and I am going to be doing the editing. He shot using Canon XH-A1 (using Panasonic AY-DVM63PQ tapes) and down-converted the footage for me onto SONY DVCAM 124 Tapes. I am using a DSR-11 to capture the footage.
OTHER SPECS:
Dual 1.8 Power Mac G5 with 10.4.11
1.5 gigs of RAM
250 gigs of hard drive space
1 terabyte of MAXTOR external hard drive space
FCP 5.0.4
Device Control: FireWire NTSC
Capture/Input: DV NTSC 48 kHz Anamorphic
My problem is: the tapes won't digitize! I am using capture now and I get this message consistently after about 17 seconds:
Capture Now has reached the end of the tape. All existing footage between the point where you started the capture and the end of the tape was captured successfully.
Clearly there is more footage on the tape, and I can fast-forward through it but it won't play and digitize more than 17 seconds at a time. I have tried rewinding/fast-forwarding the tapes, changing the device control, and using iMovie to digitize but to no avail. There is only a problem with these tapes, as my DSR-11 has not had problems before.
I am getting married in 3 weeks and I would like to have this edit done before I say "I do".
Thanks so much creative cow! Let me know if you need anymore details!
Re: FCP Digitizing Issue with DVCAM down-converted from Canon XH-A1 by William Busby on Jul 6, 2008 at 10:30:03 pm
Matt, I'm the guy in question :) (Hi Emily! :)
I think she misread your question regarding "capturing a tape NOT by this shooter". The other tape she was able to capture from WAS shot by me and was B-Roll shot with a HV10. It was downconverted the same way as the others... from an XHA1 to the same DSR-11. At this point, I think the problem is with the 2 DVCAM tapes, not my DSR-11. They may have a slight slack issue that FCP is more sensitive & detects & her DSR-11 handles better (which is why she's able to play those back without issue alone with her DSR-11) and FCP kicks back some erroneous error during capture, saying it's "reached the end of the tape" & aborts when clearly it's nowhere near the end. Situations like this I believe would be better remedied with a workaround... such as making FW dupes from those tapes to different DVCAM tapes since she's told me they playback ok on their own... or did I misunderstand Emily when we talked about this?
