HDCam Settings - Capture Issues

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I am using a really nice setup. Sony -H3 SDI to a Kona 3 breakout box into a G-5. RAM is too little but... Shooting full HD Cam and trying to bring it in. Everything seems to be hooked up properly as I can move the cursor and control the deck the viewing monitor displays the same as the Apple monitor so all of that seems fine.
I was setting FCP capture settings @ 1080i 29.97 however. I did shoot this last 3 month project on DROP Frame so I re-did the little box in the preferences.
Goes to prepare to capture and this instead... Still getting the same message:
Warning: A timecode break was encoutnered while capturing. You MUST relog these clips and recapture them without timecodes breaks. Timecode breaks will cause all subsequent instances of a clip to have unreliable timecode.
The red bar is across the clip in the bin... I did turn off all the guarding factors in the control panel to get one in. It looks like caca...
HELP! meeting with PBS comingup on Thursday really liketo have some of this available by the time I must leave.
Thanks for any Solutions,
Tim Barksdale
Birdman Productions
Choteau, Montana

Hi Shane and Mike again!
Shane I am a Birder/Biologist turned cameraman/ and Producer. Actually, Ron Tobias had me help acquire the first round of equipment from Sony and then..... So for over 15 years I have been hanging in and doing pretty well at times But there are HUGE holes in my knowledge of many areas. This doe not exend to birdlife. However, I am not an editor and many things in and around this area are still very confusing.... so with that ...
Codec? What is a codec? I am using the supplied software from Kona and Final Cut. I have fooled in User settings and also in the Easy Setup and then the Audio Video settings control panel. By changing the selections, in the menus, am I changing the codec?
Because the picture looks perfect and playback shows no problems I was setting for 1080i 29.97 10 bit uncompressed but have since been fooling with this especially. Trying to get the buttons and checked boxes correct. Is this the codec?
In the user preferences: I have UNCHECKED : Abort ETT/PTV on dropped frames AND
Abort capture on dropped frames.
This is how I got the ONE clip in to the bin without the red bar across it. But it looks very jerky and weird on playback in the FCP viewer window.
In the EASY setup it shows the Aja Kona 3-1080i 29.97 10 Bit uncompressed. Device is with Kona and using Sony VTR B. It is what came up originally when Kona did the initial device scan settings.
I can go through each line under that if I need to.
In capture settings the same except DROP FRAME 30 MODE is selected . I am still getting issues and it will not capture anything with error reading Drop Frames detected During Capture..... Yes , that is how it was shot. So how are you guys getting around this of what settings do I have that are wrong?
HOwever, in the deck display is showing T*R indicating that Time Code is not reading correctly. I may be also having issues here.
So have you guys found that some of the issues are based upon the DVW-730 time code recording problems??? Again, completely normal record mode setting using 3- 5 second buffer almost always and having Drop Frame selected internally. I can call SONY on Monday if this is still going on.
Any advise to get UNSTUCK would be Truly Appreciated.
Can I simply get around this by hooking up a Firewire cable directly into the G5 from the J-H3??
I hope I ma aswering the necessary questions.
Mike, Do you know my old friend Rob Whitehair? You can reach me on stuff like this at : curlew at 3riversdbs dot net
Thanks
tim
Tim

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