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MC to FCP?
Can anyone tell me the simplist way or more complex way of captureing something in Avid Xpress or Avid MC, create a project and export whats been captured/done in Avid MC into FCP
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Patrick,
Are you looking for ways to capture in Avid and then import the clips into FCP? Or are you thinking that you would capture and edit in Avid and then export the timeline for import into FCP? Are you also asking about how to start a project in the Avid (capture, edit)? We could offer lots of advice, but it would help to narrow down the topic.
Ed
Avid and FCP Preditor
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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
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Cheers Ed,
thank you so much for offering to help. here goes…
my problem is FCPs problems with timecode breaks and preroll points. i’m an oral historian with a basic knowledge of online editing and have 100s of hours worth of DV and HDV media. Its talking heads of war veterans. The tape length i use range from 1hr to 135 minutes. i really just want to use a program to start capturing without stopping all the time due to time breaks etc. i’m far more fimiliar with the capturing process in Avid but what i am trying find out is: i would like to capture in Avid then bring over that media to be edited in Final Cut Suite without loosing any image/sound quality or corupting files in anyway.
When i try to capture in FCP and a TC Break occurs it stops right there unless i set it to start capture again from TC Break. But the problem is that FCP requires a 5-6 second preroll. I started to learn editing with Avid Xpress HD 5 and if there was a TC Break during capture it would still continue capturing and tell you at the end and gave you the choice to either keep or discard. At least 99% of what i do capture [that does have TC breaks is still usable]so i would keep it then use it.
FCPs 5-6 second preroll really blows this out because i cant set the camera and leave it or i miss 5-6 seconds due to FCPs preroll.
what do you think i should do….???
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You won’t be able to capture in Avid without losing some material either. Sure, you can set a 1 sec preroll, but the Avid – like FCP – will stop at a TC break.
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Ditto to what Job said.
The only option that I can think of right now would be to turn off deck control. This will make it impossible for you to go back and recapture select portions of the tape based on TC because TC is not referenced.
In the capture tool, click on the deck icon so a red line appears through the icon. You can roll the deck by pressing the play button on the deck itself. And then hit the capture button in the capture/digitize window.
Not an ideal way to edit, but it may help you around the TC break issue. The only problem lies in the inability to go back and recapture.
Ed
Avid and FCP Preditor
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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield -
Why not dub the tapes? You would get a new, clean, consistent time-code that you could then dig into either system. We do this whenever we encounter problem tapes that we must have consistent TC for.
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thanks everyone,
i’m no pro like you guys which begs the question:
what would be the best way to dub an HDV 1080i mini DV tape? i only have the one camera? what extra equipment would i need?
i need to be able to do it on the cheap…..
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