FCP 3 Problems!

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If anyone could help me out (slutsky?) with this, I'd be sooo grateful. I am using FCP 3 on a reasonably fast G4 Powerbook. I use a 60gb external HD for video storage, and nothing else. When I digitize large chunks of video, the sound stutters, and each time it does my sound and images go more and more out of sync. I also get those vertical lines when there is sudden camera movement. Is this a Quicktime problem? Someone told me I need to upgrade to Pro. Or is is something else?

While I'm posting, does anyone have any advice for hacking an older DV-In ONLY camera so that it can output as well?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

(I'm just working on my first coffee of the day so I hope this comes out okay):

I don't this is a Quicktime issue. What you describe sounds like a classic firewire problem. Apple actually doesn't support FW drives for use with Final Cut (though most people, like me, use them anyway). It can work just fine, but there's that sound-out-of-sync issue that seems to plague people at random.

I'm not saying don't use the FW drive at all--but what you should do, if you have enough internal HD space, is capture to your internal drive and then move the media to your external. Also, when you're printing to video I'd advise you do the same thing: export a self-contained movie to your internal HD and output that.

Does that make any sense?

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Crystal. Thanks!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

seek more help here
http://www.uemedia.com/CPC/2-pop/
if you need it.

― PVC (peeveecee), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

or the forums here:

http://www.lafcpug.org

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

Bwaaaaaaaah! Stutter stutter stutter! Even with footage on a CD already encoded to Quictktime. This is so infuriating!

― adaml (adaml), Sunday, 19 October 2003 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you certain your project settings are correctly configured? One other thing you might want to try is changing the field dominance order (from even to odd or vice versa).

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 19 October 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, and do the frame rates match up?!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 19 October 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

I still have these kinds of problems. It seems to be an issue with the capture itself, as when I do sloooooow playback, the image always breaks up in the same places and in the same patterns. I get vertical lines when there is camera movement and pixelly blocks when people/objects move within the frame. Surely I don't need a faster computer just to capture ten minutes or so of footage?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 1 March 2004 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I also printed the raw footage straight back to tape and got the same problems when watching it back on the camera's LCD screen, so somehow it is being corrupted through the digitizing process.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 1 March 2004 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

When you have problems capturing, where are you capturing your footage to?

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 1 March 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I have tried BOTH my external and internal HDs. It's better on the internal, but still the same problems.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 1 March 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The only thing I would suggest is to do a clean reinstall of FCP and Quicktime (assuming you have legit copies) and then try capturing footage. If it works, then you can upgrade your software and recapture to see if maybe it is the updates that are causing your problems.

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

assuming you have legit copies

*cough*

*splutter*

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah if you don't have legit copies, then ... you know ..

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, i do really. but still...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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