Drop frames capture

(with a old vaio with vista and vegas 8 i have made a cature 4 hours of video entire tape at once to internal hd and edit of multicam with no problems....this is ridiculous....)

Well then, the answer is simple... use Vegas! Either that or let us know that you have at least attempted to learn the system you have chosen for this project by including some more information such as the version of FCP, the version of QT, what are you sequence settings, capture settings? How much space is available on the drive? Did you use the easy setup for the format you shot? What are you trying to capture, DV25, DV50? What have you tried to remedy the problem... etc...

rh

I would use Vegas and that old Vaio.

Don't know how new you are to FCP so have a look first at one of Shanes Stock Answers

Shane's Stock Answer #12: Dropped frames on capture/playback

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58640

1) Do not capture to your main system drive. Since it is busy reading the operating system and application files, it will intermittently drop frames during capture. Capture to a separate internal drive, or external hard drive (firewire and eSATA for example).

2) Deactivate any anti-virus/filesaver software, including Norton and Virex. For some reason these programs think that the large files created when you capture media are in fact caused by some sort of virus, and they try to prevent this.

3) Check the format of the drive you are capturing to. It should be Mac OS Extended, journaling off. If it isn't, copy your files from it and re-initialize it. If it is any other format, you will encounter problems. If not at first, then eventually.

4) Trash the FCP preference files. Use FCP Rescue available here:
http://www.fcprescue.com

5) Make sure that the hard drives you are capturing to are fast enough to handle the footage being captured to it. A regular firewire 400 drive cannot capture uncompressed HD, or even uncompressed standard definition. A RAID array of drives might be in order for these formats.

Other things to try if you still have problems.

Do you have any other FW devices plugged in when trying to capture? If so, disconnect them.
Do you have any other programs open during capture? If so, close them.
Try running Apple Disk Utilities on the capture drive. If you have it, run Disk Warrior as well.
Try changing to FW BASIC in FCP Device Control Presets.

EDIT Not sure about FCP 6 but In FCP 5.1 you can choose an EASY SETUP for PAL with FIREWIRE BASIC.

rh

Message was edited by: Randy Holder