Tape drop outs causing capture problems

I have just discovered my Sony DVCAM tape has major drop outs but I still need to capture the video recorded on it. Is there any way to set the capture tool to ignore the drop outs and capture through them so I can fine tune my interviews in the editing process rather than the capture process?

In User Preferences, General Tab, set to 'Warn after Capture' in the setting for 'On Timecode Break'

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Verizon DSL drops out intermittently: problems for 10 months

Subject: Verizon DSL drops out intermittently: problems for 10 months
Hi all,
Just wondering if any one can help. We had Verizon DSL on our home phone line for six years in Worcester MA. The first five years we had little to problems. The last 10 months we’ve have frequent (nearly every day drop out and period where the DSL line can’t connect for minutes to sometimes hours).
We’ve had seven different technicians visit us for a total of thirteen visits. They’ve replaced the line coming into our house multiple times and isolated our home phone lines from the DSL feed but this hasn’t helped. Verizon tech support can’t seem to get back to me with a detailed plan of what they are going to do next and few representatives return my phone calls.
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Here’s our transceiver stats from our Verzion 7500 DSL modem combo:
Transceiver Revision     A2pB020b3.d20h
Vendor ID Code          4D54
Line Mode                   ADSL_2plus
Data Path                     FAST
Transceiver Information            Down Stream Path       Up Stream Path
DSL Speed (Kbits/Sec)            3358                            863
Margin (dB)                             9.2                               7.0
Line Attenuation (dB)               44.0                             19.4
Transmit Power (dBm)21.0                             12.4
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To:
Verizon, St. Petersburg, FL
Verizon Technical Team, Worcester, MA
The Department of Telecommunications and Cable, Consumer Division, Boston, MA
Better Business Bureau
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hours a day, most days a week. Our next door neighbors have the same problem with their Verizon
DSL service, though they do not use the internet very often so are less affected than we are. We rely
on consistent internet service for our jobs.
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which we took off work to be home. Two of these times in which we were stood up were not visits that
Verizon initiated, where we were told we needed to be home. Additionally, we have received
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person to person, and now believe that no one wants to expend the effort to deal with our problems.
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For the last few weeks (since i installed snow leopard i think), i have been getting a lot of audio drop outs, where all of a sudden the sound goes dead and i get a popping sound coming from my speakers.
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8/22/08 7:15:12 AM loginwindow[24] DEAD_PROCESS: 0 console
8/22/08 7:15:12 AM shutdown[128] reboot by mark:
8/22/08 7:15:12 AM shutdown[128] SHUTDOWN_TIME: 1219414512 407699
8/22/08 7:15:12 AM com.apple.loginwindow[24] Shutdown NOW!
8/22/08 7:15:12 AM com.apple.loginwindow[24] System shutdown time has arrived
8/22/08 7:15:12 AM mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-171.4 (Apr 20 2008 11:59:52)[23] stopping
8/22/08 7:15:12 AM com.apple.SystemStarter[17] Stopping Adobe Version Cue CS2
8/22/08 7:15:31 AM kernel npvhash=4095
8/22/08 7:15:31 AM com.apple.launchctl.System[2] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/chum.plist
8/22/08 7:15:31 AM com.apple.launchctl.System[2] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
8/22/08 7:15:31 AM com.apple.launchctl.System[2] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/pilotfish.plist
8/22/08 7:15:31 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.adobe.versioncueCS3) Unknown key: ServiceDescription
8/22/08 7:15:31 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.distccdConfigd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
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8/22/08 7:15:31 AM kernel Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
8/22/08 7:15:31 AM kernel Loading security extension com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall
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8/22/08 7:15:31 AM kernel calling mpopolicyinit for mb
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8/22/08 7:15:31 AM kernel Security policy loaded: Seatbelt Policy (mb)
8/22/08 7:15:31 AM kernel Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
8/22/08 7:15:31 AM kernel The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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8/22/08 7:15:31 AM kernel using 16384 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
8/22/08 7:15:31 AM kernel devfsmakenode: not ready for devices!
8/22/08 7:15:31 AM kernel IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 64:87
8/22/08 7:15:31 AM kernel ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
8/22/08 7:15:31 AM kernel mbinit: done
8/22/08 7:15:31 AM kernel Security auditing service present
8/22/08 7:15:31 AM kernel BSM auditing present
8/22/08 7:15:31 AM kernel rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 419B2954-20DC-3880-AFEB-448924F9BE09
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8/22/08 7:15:31 AM kernel FireWire (OHCI) TI ID 8025 built-in now active, GUID 001d4ffffe5f8d30; max speed s800.
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8/22/08 7:15:31 AM kernel GFX0: family specific matching fails
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8/22/08 7:15:53 AM kernel AirPort: Link Up on en1
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8/22/08 7:16:02 AM loginwindow[24] USER_PROCESS: 24 console
8/22/08 7:16:02 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.UserEventAgent-LoginWindow[81]) Exited: Terminated
8/22/08 7:16:02 AM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[91] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/machinit_peruser.d/com.adobe.versioncueCS3.monitor.plist
8/22/08 7:16:02 AM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[91] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/machinit_peruser.d/RemoteUI.plist
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When I capture a 45 minute long clip to my (250GB Lacie) external HD and I hit escape at the end of the clip, the capture window stays open with the last frame frozen. The entire FCP3 interface freezes and I have to force quit.
My capture length max is at 60. I am hitting "escape" well before the clip ends.
I have saved 5 minute long clips recently on this drive with FCP3 with no problems. There is 240+ GB available.
Any assistance appeciated. I've tried to capture this 45 minute long clip 5 times and, when everything looks / acts normal until the end, it has chewed up LOTS of time!
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IMac G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9) Two 160GB and One 250GB external Lacie Drives

Patrick (and anyone else who wants to conribute)
I cleaned off the large LaCie drive and started over. I set that drive as the capture scratch drive, and limited the time to 45 minutes. It's hung up again as I type this, last frame frozen like it's still capturing.
Earlier, in testing the large drive, I transferred another 45 minute long segment from the smaller LaCie drive to the larger one and it worked (took about 15 minutes, though).
I can't believe all this is normal. I just bought the large drive and I am considering returning it. One thought was that perhaps when I installed teh LaCi drive I didn't do anything with the program that came on the disk. The drive just immediately popped up on the desktop and started working. As I believe I said earlier, it seemed to work for a shorter clip. As a neophyte to Mac and Final Cut, this has been a real challenge. I am going to wait a bit longer (although anything over a minute or two seems wrong) for this thing to drop out of capture mode (it's been 13 minutes so far for this 45 minute clip) then it's back to the old Force Quit.
It also appears I can set the smaller drive as the capture scratch disk yet save to the larger disk. It does not make sense to me.
Any assistance appreciated.
Pete

Drop-outs with Airport streaming iTunes

hello all and merry Christmas
I am streaming music to two Airport Express from a hard drive mounted to an Airport Extreme base station. I have the latest versions of firmware and iTunes. iTunes will randomly drop-out and it's driving me batty.
I know it's not a network related issue (ie .... interference from other networks or phones) as I can stream the Expresses using Airfoil without drop outs. The problem only occurs with iTunes 8 as it didn't occur in version 7. I've searched for comments and read as many threads on these boards as I could find but haven't found the solution.
I have based my entire music system on the basis of streaming as described above.
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2. Set the network to operate on a channel not used by any nearby networks. I live in an apartment building where nearly everyone has a wireless network. Using the iStumbler app I could determine which channels other networks were using, and pick one that wasn't in use.
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To test the reliability of the streaming to Airport Expresses, try the following:
1. Find the Airport Express IP number in the Airport Utility
2. Open up Terminal
3. Type "ping <ip-address>"
4. Let it run for a nice long time, then type cntl-C
5. You will now see in the text in the terminal screen the % of data lost. If this is high then you need to continue troubleshooting your network.
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Wi Fi Drop Outs ...

Hi all,
I've so far had three calls to Apple care on this issue and so far still not resolved. My iMac is intermittently dropping off Wi Fi, seems to be a very common issue with Mountain Lion 10.8.2. Is there any fix for this? So far senior Apple Care reps have reconfigured network prefrences etc etc, but to no avail ... Is there a system software update coming anytime soon to addess this issue? Any help on this will be greatly appreciated ...
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lol, yeah 4g iphone, lol, yeah i mean an Iphone 4 with 3GS
My iphone is only issue i am aware of that getting the wifi drop out.
The problem is during the time i use my iphone, the wi-fi connection will suddenly stop working if i try open up apps that require internet, like youtube...etc. One moment using it, the next, it saying you require the internet to play this or use that. Like i still have that wi-fi signal on my phone during time says i have no internet but if i turn off the wifi, and use the 3G on phone, it goes back normal. The wifi ends up working again after while, but od that it does this.
Also how do i troubleshoot the wifi? Hope that answer was bit more useful for you, i making sound bit confusing
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Please help me out here. I'm a freelance camera operator w/ a Canon XL2 and several times now I've gotten calls from the editors saying they're having problems logging my footage, mainly the audio drops out quite a bit, and I'm not talking bout one second for every 2 or 3 minutes. No. It's like every 10 seconds the audio drops in and out.
What's the deal? Two times the guy was using a Panasonic DVX-100A to capture, another time it was a SONY DSR mini-DV deck. With each incident I had to go over with my XL2 and use it as the capture device, which is a pain.
The program they're using is FCP HD or 5. But I think even when they just play the tape in their Sony or Pany cameras, the audio may still suck.
Help me out here, I can't be the only one with this problem.
Thanks.
-R

Well Robert Swanson, I hope my post wasn't taken offensively, it certainly wasn't meant as such. The only Canon camcorder I owned was the GL1. After switching to Sony's I can honestly say it would take something significant to go back. And, I was merely relating my experiences in trying to capture from other Canon camcorders so that I know where you are coming from. However, I am interested in the HVX being the "noisest" camera on the market. I am seriously considering this camera and would be interested in a review that points this out. I would be using the hard drive recorder instead of P2 cards.
Mike

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I recently brought my apple iPhone 3GS (last 2 weeks) and pretty much since day 1 I've the same problem. The phone network I have keeps dropping out for no reason at all, wi-fi connection too (I maintain little or no coverage, but as I've taken the sim card back to the company for inspection, they've said the sim is fine and I shouldnt be having this problem) any ideas on how to resolve this issue???

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I'm afraid i'm not familiar with mHotspot but it sounds like it's not providing correct DNS settings over DHCP and that you need to enter them manually in the phone. You can do this under Settings -> WiFi -> [tap and hold the network] -> Modify network -> Show advanced options -> IP settings -> Static. But for information on what settings you should use you need to check with the support for mHotspot. I suspect you should either use the DNS from your ISP or enter the IP of the virtual interface created my mHotspot.
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Can't figure out why I'm dropping frames during capture

I'm dropping frames when capturing 1-hour Mini DV tapes and I can't figure out why.
I'm capturing on a Mac Pro (Early '08) with 8 GB of memory running FCP 7.0.3 and OS X 10.6.6. I'm capturing to a 4 TB G-Speed eS (eSATA) formatted as RAID 5 (Non-Journaled Extended) with about 750 GB of remaining space. I'm capturing via FireWire with a Canon GL-2. This should be a breeze for this system.
I've run Apple Disk Utility, Disc Warrior 4 and Techtool Pro 5 on the drives and they seem to be fine. I've unplugged all USB and FireWire devices besides the keyboard and mouse. No virus protection or background utilities are running. I've trashed preferences. AJA System Test shows a 286 MB/s write speed and 254 MB/s read speed. Blackmagic Disk Speed Test shows a 312 MB/s write speed and a 379 MB/s read speed. No other applications besides FCP are running. I edit 1080p HD footage on this system all day long with no issues but when I try to capture DV SD footage, I run into issues.
The dropped frames error does not ever occur in the same place on the tapes. The tapes are brand new and don't seem to have any time code issues. The only thing I haven't done is to defragment the hard drives. I wouldn't think that capturing simple DV video would be that demanding; the defragment for a 4 TB RAID would likely take 2 or 3 days.
Any other ideas on what's going on and how to try to fix it? Thanks!

Thanks for the prompt reply, Studio X. Yes, I'm using FireWire Basic and no other FireWire devices. I've switched FireWire cables, although I doubt that's the issue as the cable I was using was brand new and fit snuggly. Unfortunately, I don't have an alternate playback device right now. Would switching to Non-controllable device capture settings be worth a try?

Is anyone got problems with iPad 2 and iOS 8 ? My service provider keeps dropping out. I have to restart it everytime any way I can fix this

Has anyone upgraded to iOS 8 and have found that the service provider keeps dropping out? I have to restart my iPad to get my service back. Only happened after upgrading! Would love A fix for this.

I'm not going to say that you won't find an easier solution than the one below, but I would recommend it as the "ultimate" solution.
keithfrommariettaOct 12, 2014 3:25 PM Re: IPAD2 very slow after IOS 8 upgrade
Re: IPAD2 very slow after IOS 8 upgradein response to pacoKAS
SOLVED: IOS 8 Issues on iPad 2:
I just returned home from a visit to the Genius Bar. Like you and many others, when I upgraded my iPad 2 to IOS 8, it became practically unusable. It was VERY slow, lagged whenever trying to to do anything. Lots of screen freezes and apps spontaneously crashing. I was convinced that the processor on the iPad 2 just couldn't handle the new IOS and I went in to see about restoring to IOS 7.
Thankfully, I was hooked up with a very sharp guy at the bar. The problem is not with the OS, it is with it being an *upgraded* OS. He used the analogy of when you had an older Windows computer and how over time (and over upgrades), they just tended to get slower and slower because of all of the garbage that was carried forward in the upgrades. At those times (and if you've ever had a Windows computer, you get this), the only thing that would speed it up would be to wipe the machine and do a fresh install of the current OS and then reload your apps, and the viola, everything would be fast again. Well, it turns out that IOS can suffer the same problems.
THE FIX: FIRST, be sure you have a current iCloud backup of your device. Connect your iPad to a computer that has a clean fresh copy of IOS 8 on iTunes (this is best done with a computer other than the one that you sync your device to because you DO NOT want to restore it from a back up just yet). Ideally, if you do this at an Apple store you'll be assured of the right version there and someone to answer any questions you might have along the way. You then hold the power and home button down to hard-reset the device and continue to hold them down until it reboots into recovery mode. You then follow the instructions on the computer to reinstall the OS on the device (which wipes everything from it and then reinstalls a clean copy of it). Once this is done (which only takes about 15 minutes), your device will reboot and ask you to set it up. Answer the questions about language, location, etc. and continue until it asks you to log into your iTunes account. Once you do that, it will ask if you want to either 1) Set it up as a new device, 2) Restore from iCloud, or 3) Restore from iTunes. Choose (2), restore from iCloud. This will ensure that it brings down "clean" copies of all of your apps and preferences rather than the potentially corrupted ones that might reside in your iTunes backup. That's it! It will take a few hours depending on how much data and apps you have, but I am happy to report that my iPad 2 is now running IOS 8 and it's running as fast as it ever did when it was brand new!
To sum it up, this process 1) Wipes your device and the garbage causing your problems, 2) Loads a clean and bug-free version of IOS 8 to your device, and 3) restores your apps and data so that it looks just like it did before the wipe, with the exception that it works now! :-)
Note also that by following this process you don't have to go through the painful and laborious process of reloading all of your apps, data and/or settings. iCloud takes care of all of that for you.

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