Log & Capture problem

Howdy folks! So here is the problem....
Log & capturing a Sony DV 80 tape from Sony DSR-11.
After a few minutes capture stops and dialogue box states...."Capture encountered a problem reading the data on your source tape".
The tape plays back just fine in the preview mode but will not load in the log & capture mode.
I have tried the following: capture now mode, playing back from camera tape was originally shot on, making a copy of tape and then trying to capture. None of these things have worked.
Would love to hear back from anyone on how to load tape up if possible.
In all the years I have never had this problem, so maybe it IS just a bad tape and I have to give up.
Thanks for your time,
Liza

Liza Sanchez wrote:
So after making the composite video and editing in FCP I am ready to render.
What are your sequence settings? You should not need to render at all if you're just doing regular ol' DV.
Liza Sanchez wrote: Dialog box keeps coming up "File Error: Illegal name".
After going threw all the normal checks ie., keystrokes, numbers and names for errors, giving
project a different name. I can still not render. There are no "red" lines just "green" lines for
rendering.
Be sure your prefs for FCP have a properly designated Render Scratch disk, you've got room on that drive, and there's a folder been created for your project. I'm betting you've got render asigned to your System drive.
This could be more of a Finder issue than an FCP error. But without watching over your shoulder it's literally impossible to begin to guess. You can search the forum for that specific error.
Liza Sanchez wrote:
Do you think b/c it is a composite/digital file that is why I am having problems?
Not related at all. You made a composite compy of your tape but you captured via FW directly to the DV codec. Your sequence should also be DV.
Liza Sanchez wrote:
I am going to try and export to compressor just to see what happens.
There's no reason to do this at all but what are you planing on sending to Compressor? The media or the sequence?
bogiesan

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