[MacDV] Re: Final Cut Express 2.0

[Mark M. Florida]

On 1/7/04 5:07 PM, sb at videovideo at mac.com wrote:

> I think there's just something wrong with your FCE setup. You really should
> be able to capture without dropping frames.

I think the frames are dropping because of breaks in the timecode.  Does it
affect audio/video sync?

Maybe FCE 2 fixes this?

http://www.apple.com/finalcut/

- Mark

> On 1/7/04 1:21 PM, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> 
>>> I have to agree with Zane on this. I have a TRV27 which is the TRV25
>>> with a larger LCD and it has worked fine in iMovie. I would expect that
>>> FCE and iMovie would have the same camcorder support. I you sure it is
>>> not a problem with the camera. I had the firewire port on the camera go
>>> bad at four months, just after the three month warrantee was over.
>>> 
>>> Eric
>> 
>> I've been unable to get a decent capture with FCE between dropping frames (on
>> a G5 2x2) and timecode breaks.  I finally gave up trying, and capture the
>> video on a WinXP system using Scenalyzer (dropping Zero frames, and having no
>> problems), and copy it to the Mac.

Yeah, that's sad...  :-(