• Apple Final Cut Pro

  FCPX capture from a DV deck not working

  Posted by Shane Trowbridge on August 21, 2012 at 7:48 pm

  I am trying to capture some Beta tapes into FCPX. The Beta deck is running into a DV deck (as an uncontrolled device) and then into my Macbook pro via Firewire. FCPX is recognizing the video and giving me the option to capture it but when I stop the capture there is nothing in the event. I’ve tried it a few times with no success.

  I should mention that it works fine with FCP 7 (though the audio bit rates aren’t matching exactly). I could use 7 but I’m really trying to use X for all my work.

  Any thoughts?

  Shane

  Andy Mees replied 13 years, 7 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Eric Santiago

  August 21, 2012 at 9:42 pm

  Have you tried capturing reg DV data without the Beta in the chain?
  FCP legacy dealt with analog over digital really well.
  Maybe just dump the Beta to DV first then try again.
  Man its been years since Ive touched this workflow.
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  T. Payton

  August 23, 2012 at 6:16 pm

  Unfortunately FCP X won’t let you capture from some live devices, which is what is happening by going Beta (Analog out) to DV to Firewire.

  You have two choices:

  1-Put a tape in your DV camera and record it. Then FCP X can capture the tape.
  2-Use QuickTime Player (not 7) to create a movie recording in the native codec. Use settings like these:

  

  I would just do #2.

  ——
  T. Payton
  OneCreative, Albuquerque
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  Andy Mees

  October 6, 2012 at 1:15 am

  Hey Tim

  You note that its only “some” live devices that are a problem … do you happen to know which if any live devices might not be a problem? I ask because I just ran into this issue myself last week … we’d stuck a copy of FCP X on a laptop here (as a cheap and cheerful backup edit solution) but when the guys tried to do a quick capture from a live DV input we hit the same problem described above. Without knowing a lot about built-in DV capture support in FCP X (and to be fair, not a whole heck of a lot about much else in FCP X either) I just concluded that it doesn’t work without deck control. I had the guys capture into iMovie instead, which worked just fine and afterwards let them bring the capture events into FCPX pretty simply too via iMovie project import … but I’m wondering now if there’s another (DV bridge) solution I might have had hanging around and that might have worked?

  Thanks in advance
  Andy

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