Capture and play back/ dropped frames

Hey,

Ok.. Got a few problems that are really pissing me off. I haven't used FCP since FCP 1 and now I'm working on 4 and I'm a little lost. But the simpliest thing is proving to be the hardest thing for me to figure out. I'm working with a G4 over a Gb of RAM a Tb of storage, like I said FCP 4, capturing from a Canon ZR 100. I can capture everything seems to be working right, but I constantly get dropped frames and capture is choppy as hell as is playback. Anyone have a clue? Anyone who gives me the answer gets really good karma.

Danny

P.S. I forgot to mention that I shot the footage on a Cannon XL1 in the frame mode which shoots at 30 fps... I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not.

Just use the standard DV NTSC Preset. But change the device control to FireWire Basic.

Keep your clips short, if you can. Long clips are SATAN with a Canon.



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You can have serious datarate chop problems if you have two or more things connected to the machine's Firewire ports at the same time.

Our T-Byte of storage is on its own PCI card and we still capture to an internal drive first and then move the work over to the stack. No stutters ever. Used to drive us nuts.

Koz