• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Capturing non-controllable device

  Posted by Dan O’brien on July 19, 2005 at 7:21 pm

  I’m trying to capture some audio off of a standard cassette. I have the cassette deck output hooked up to my dv deck input, with firewire connecting the dv deck to my g5. When I set the device control to ‘non-controllable device’ and try to ‘capture now’, fcp comes back with an error message that says “final cut pro was unable to read the movie file just captured.’

  any clue as to how to fix this? Any help would be appreciated.

  Thanks much.

  Dan

  Chris Babbitt replied 20 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Bouncing Account needs new email address

  July 19, 2005 at 7:26 pm

  Fast fix is to just record the audio onto a DV tape and then capture as usual (you’ll then have Timecode and that can be very handy.)
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  Chris Babbitt

  July 20, 2005 at 5:33 am

  I ran into this, Dan. In fact, I’ve spoken to Apple about it, without much success. What I discovered is that if you have a deck or camera connected to your computer by firewire, you must shut it down, and turn off the firewire selections in your A/V settings in FCP. Then it works. I reported this problem on this forum a while back, but I guess not many people do audio-only capturing. The fact that you are having this problem confirms that this might be a bug. It might help if you would report this to Apple through the feedback link in FCP. It might re-inforce what I’ve been telling them.

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