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Adobe PPRO CS3 capture?
Well hello again everyone
I am pleased to say they have upgraded our cameras, no more strange PAL videos with strange artifacts in adobe (like the shaking incident)
I am having fun with the new canons, just record, plug in the mini firewire cable and off it goes as a HUGE AVI raw video file (mini dv tapes of 29.97 NTSC)
Although i am sure the real fun will start when we try to encode a final project.
On to the issue today though,
Heres what took place
we captured some news footage of roads washing away in a bad rainstorm (over 4 inches of rain fell in 24 hours) and brought it back to the edit bay, i loaded the firewire and started ppro cs3, after creating a new project i went into the capture screen
step
1. scrolled through footage until appropriate in/out points were set
2. clicked “log clip” for each piece and gave it a name
3. saw each piece show up in the bin in the background
4. ran a capture on the whole tape (would have jsut done the 12 minutes but i always get a “cant find inpoint, increase preroll” errorheres the slipup
when i went into ppro worksapce ALL the clips were there, however they were all BLANK, the in and out points showed up but no video, this was not good, so i tried to “link media” with these clips to the FULL edit roll, this just made EVERY CLIP show the full tape, so i screwed up and we missed the newscast, what did i do wrong, and more importantly do i have to do those clips ALL OVER, or is there a way to save the timing on them
i normally just capture the whole footage then razor blade it in the workspace, i thought log clip would be faster, i did something wrong and missed the deadline, still a newb with this so help me out here!
thanks everyone
(BTW i still have that project open with all the clips in it, in hopes i can somehow get them to show up in ppro cs3)
Jay
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8 Replies
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nobody knows huh?
wow thats a dissapointemnt to say the least
lol
OH well
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You can capture the whole tape with scene detection on an chuck away the clips you do not want in the Bridge.
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We need to know a bit more…what’s the format? Timecode? (drop/non drop), You can capture the whole tape (I assume it’s a tape?) without issue? Project settings? Camera settings? etc…
TimK,
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Tim
Thas a bit tough, as for the lot of it i dont know where to begin,
but i can tell you it is a TAPE (mini DV) non-drop? help me there
as for what i did i really detailed that in the previous post,
I took the tape, ran it while in “capture” mode , when i found a “clip” i started an in point, then ran to an out point, then after EACH CLIP had points i hit LOG CLIP, and it asked me for a clip name, i did this 10 or 11 times for the different “clips”
when i closed the capture window they were all in the “bin” in the project, however the names showed up and even the timecode showing length, but there was NO VIDEO in any of the “clips”
does this help?
screen of the project can be seen at
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All you did was log the clips you want, you did not capture anything yet. Reconnect the camera with the tape in it and then select all the clips in the project window and press F6 (Batch capture).
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The steps that Jason outlines don’t mention a capture step…
However, on his screen cap, the clips in the project window don’t look like logged clips…they look as if they’re captured.
So this is miniDV, not HDV?
Do the clips in the bin have an appropriate file size? (about 3.65 MB a minute)
TimK,
Director, Consultant
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i wish it was that easy
I sort of dont have the ORIGINAL TAPE data any longer
I do however have an AVI file with the whole tape on it,
So your saying all i have to do is select ALL CLIPS that were “logged” (which i now gather does nto actually RECORD them tot he hd, what a waste of space that function is lol) and do a batch CAPTURE
will that restore all the edit points?
thanks for the info!
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IN THE END i had to use the “full edit roll” that i captured, and make subclips in the preview window, kind of a big waste of time, but the log clips obviously is just that
thanks for the replies everyone!
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