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FCP and my Panasonic 24p
Hello all,
I’ve been trying to digitize my shots from my Panasonic DVX100 (the first edition) to the FCP Studio 2 at work. They have one of the towers, I believe its the newer Mac Pro 8 system.
So I plug my firewire cable into the front of the tower, start up FCP and it recognizes it. I can see picture and everything. But when I go to digitize, I set an “in” point and fast forward to the “out” point, and select “clip” but the computer doesn’t rewind back to the “in” point. I recorded in Free Run timecode on the camera, but to help it out I rewind it back a little just to get it in the right time. But it always rewinds the camera back to a minute before the “in” point.
I have the deck selected as “firewire port, but I don’t know what it is. I’m new to FCP, so maybe their is a step or something I’m missing. Could anyone help me out?
Also, do I have to set an out point everytime I just want to digitize, or can FCP just run using the timecode until a timecode break or something? Everytime I set an “in” point, it marks the same timecode as an “out” point.
Melvin Royster
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1 Reply
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Melvin
After you select the in and out on the clip, you need to log it, then hit batch capture to start the capture process.
I really recommend reading the FCP manual (it’s installed on every Mac with FCP on) as it will talk you through all the possible capture options.
There is also an excellent basics forum here for people starting out on FCP – it’s a little gentler! Good luck with all your work in the future.
Ben
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