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  • Capturing in FCP for the Avid

    Posted by Matthew Reithmayr on March 25, 2006 at 6:27 am

    I’m going to be working on a project on an Avid Adrenalyne. I’m trying to get a jump on some digitizing by capturing at home on my FCP system. Any recommendations on what settings I should use when digitizing???

    I downloaded some codecs from Avid, but they only go into my Library>Quicktime folder, and don’t seem to affect the incoming footage.

    Thanks,

    Matthew Reithmayr
    Doulos Multimedia

    Wes Plate replied 20 years, 1 month ago 5 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Dom Silverio

    March 25, 2006 at 5:47 pm

    You can’t. They have 2 different methods of capturing and storing their media files and associated bin information.

  • Oliver Peters

    March 25, 2006 at 9:57 pm

    Assuming that your footage is only DV and you have access at home to a DV deck, then you could purchase and install the Mac version of Avid Xpress DV or Xpress Pro. This would let you capture files on your home system for use with Adrenaline.

    Sincerely,
    Oliver

    Oliver Peters
    Post-Production & Interactive Media
    Orlando, FL
    http://www.oliverpeters.com

  • Matthew Reithmayr

    March 27, 2006 at 10:16 pm

    So…tried it anyways.

    FCP captures files as QT movies. I used the standard DV NTSC 48Hz to digitize the footage to a Firewire drive.

    I plugged the FW into a PC running Avid, transferred the files to the computer, and then imported the files via Avid.

    No problems at all — except that I had to rename each of the .mov files to include the “.mov” so that the PC would see them.

    Thanks,

    Matthew Reithmayr
    Doulos Multimedia

  • Wes Plate

    March 27, 2006 at 11:21 pm

    of course you’ll notice once you import those .movs into your Avid that you lost your tape and timecode metadata.

    — Wes Plate
    Automatic Duck

  • Joseph Bradley

    March 28, 2006 at 2:04 am

    Would automatic duck be able to transcode the FCP files and keep the metadata?

  • Wes Plate

    March 29, 2006 at 5:22 am

    No, we do not translate FCP media into Avid media.

    — Wes Plate
    Automatic Duck

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