• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Capture QTs a mess or a new thing?

  Posted by Mike Manor on November 20, 2007 at 9:06 am

  I’m a little confused/perplexed. I’ve just installed FC Studio 2 (I’ve been using Studio 1, so am familiar) and capturing tapes using Capture/Now. The problem is this: in the Browser the captured clips look fine – one clip per tape – and they move to the timeline OK, edit fine, etc. However, I discovered when looking in the Capture Scratch folder that instead of one QT file for each tape, there are many with the same name plus some numbers but the same amount of memory used. Only one opens when clicked. When I click the others I get a pop-up window that says: “The movie could not be opened. The file is not a movie file.” In the past, I always got one QT file per captured tape.

  Does any one know if this is a new thing with FC Studio 2 or have I set something up wrong? It doesn’t appear to affect the edit – so far – but I had to move a folder with the capture scratch files and it was quite a challenge to reconnect them – couldn’t tell which was which. I can’t find any documentation on this. Any ideas?

  Mac G5 Dual 2.5 GHz
  3.5 GB DDR SDRAM
  Mac OSX 10.4.11
  2 Internal HDs: a 150G and a 750G
  QT 7.3 w/ QTPro
  2 Ext 750G HDs and 2 300G ext HDs

  Mike Manor replied 18 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  November 20, 2007 at 9:45 am

  Not a new thing, but an old one. If your drive that you are capturing to is formatted Fat 32 or some other PC format, you have a file size limit of about 2GB to 4GB. So if you capture a big chunk, the drive will break it up into small pieces, called CLIP-av-0, CLIP-av-1, CLIP-av-2. All of these are seen by FCP as one clip, and on the finder level, they aren’t openable on their own.

  SOlution? Format your drive MacOS Extended and capture again. No file size limit with that.

  Shane

  
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  Mike Manor

  November 20, 2007 at 8:48 pm

  Thanks Shane. I checked that out and all my drives are formatted as MacOS Extended. I also thought it might be related to the settings in the System Settings in FCP where you can fill in “Minimum Allowable Free Space On Scratch Disks” and check or not “Limit Capture/Export File Segment Size To:” and then put in a number if checked. I tried checking the second one, Limit Capture…, and putting in very large number like 14K or leave it unchecked. I just recaptured a tape and it still makes them in segments, very much like you described. Still lost but I’ll keep trying and reading.

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