This is a problem that keeps popping up here and there. It's weird. I will do a capture from a Mini DV tape to a external Firewire drive and when you play the clip in FCP the video is played faster than the audio. When you put it on the timeline the audio is the correct duration but the video plays much faster and then just has black to finish out the clip.... The really funny thing is that when you go directly to the clip in the finder and open it with Quicktime it plays just fine. But when you put it back into FCP (new project and everything) it will just keep playing the video faster than the audio...
MacBook 2 Ghz 1.2 gig of ram,
Mac OS X (10.5),
Sony Mini DV deck....
Could this be a clip recorded at LP with an SP capture preset? Play the tape on a deck or camera and see what the display on a monitor connected directly to the deck or camera says about the format.
Thats what I am trying right now.. I will let you know when it is done. If my memory serves me correctly I have done this before and that didn't help. quicktime still plays it fine and FCP reads it the same way. It's like the meta data is messed up somehow and re-compressing it in quicktime should take care of that.
i just read a post on this and someone suggested changing the sample rate form 48 to 44.1, (or vice versa.)
May help you...may not.
Strange occurance all the same.
Good luck with sorting this out.
yah I don't know that going to 44.1 would help, FCP only wants to work with 48 and besides the audio is fine it's the video that is played at a faster frame rate...
Do you want to post a short 10 second clip and I'll take a look at it. Email me directly and I'll give you the address of my Idisk public folder if you don't have your own ftp solution
Ok so after converting it in the quicktime player to a NTSC/DV DVCPRO video at 29,97 fps I open it in fcp and it tries to stretch it and to be like a 720p video file. I am really getting annoyed with this crazy stuff. I will export a little segment and you can play with it. See if you can make heads or tails.
Thanks.