Re: DVCPRO Capture Problems - Tape or Deck or FCP Issue ?

Hi

Trying to capture from DVC PRO tapes - problem is I don't know if they are DVC PRO 25 , DVC PRO 50, or HD
(we inherited these tapes from another company, who shot them but is not being forthcoming about how they shot...)

I have a Panasonic AJ-SD93 deck hooked up to Final Cut 5.1.4 via 6pin firewire
I start playing tape with regular DV NTSC settings in Log & Capture, timecode seems to be rolling continuously, the deck display says i is DVC PRO 50 - then I hit Capture Now and I get a freeze frame, and an error message :

Capture encountered a problem reading the data on your source tape. This could be due to a problem with the tape. Capture has been aborted.

So is it the tape ?
The weird thing is I was able to capture up to about 10 min of the first tape.
Even when playing back, something changes on the tape at about 10 min - but what ? Timecode is continuous - what coudl change and make it uncapturable ?.

If it was shot on mini-DV tape it can not be DVCPRO HD.

If the deck says it's 50, probably is.

--ken

So given that its probably DVCPRO50, can you think of any reason why I was having the problems described above with capturing from these tapes.

Never got that error message before...

(Now capturing using a DV50 template for capture settings with better luck, so far...)

err, as a lark, maybe try another Firewire cable?