• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  timecode breaks, C’MON!

  Posted by Ben Jones on August 26, 2008 at 10:18 am

  hey all,
  recently got a bunch of tapes to digitize and of course its all riddled with time code breaks. every single shot is a timecode break. i try to capture the whole tape as one clip but when we get to a break, the log and capture cancels out. i am able to sit here keep recapturing the next clip however im losing under a second every time i do this.so here i am with a bin of up 50clips per tape with time missing between each clip. logging first and batch capturing will have a similar effect as in it wont be able to locate the timecodes. so as i “capture now” im always going to be losing that second before i actually capture the footage. am i doing all i can?
  i selected in the dropframe menu in the preferences ‘warn after’ but it said it was capturing the clip but didn’t in the end. am i missing something completley?
  id imagine apple would have made it possible to capture over timecode breaks by now, wrong? anything i can do for the client?

  Paul Dickin replied 17 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Walter Biscardi

  August 26, 2008 at 12:09 pm

  [ben jones] “id imagine apple would have made it possible to capture over timecode breaks by now, wrong? anything i can do for the client?
  “

  This is a very basic question that would be solved by simply looking at your User Preferences. Yes, Apple did provide this feature I believe with version 1 of FCP.

  “On Timecode Break” you have three choices. The one you want is “warn after capture.”

  Walter Biscardi, Jr.
  Biscardi Creative Media
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  Bob Flood

  August 26, 2008 at 2:56 pm

  ben

  “im losing under a second every time i do this.so here i am with a bin of up 50clips per tape with time missing between each clip”

  so the tapes were shot with no preroll?ie no time between the timecode break and the first significant action?

  set your user preferences to ignore tc breaks, or warn after capture, and capture everything at final resolution so you dont have to re-capture.

  hope this helps

  “I like video because its so fast!”

  Bob Flood
  Greer & Associates, Inc.
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  Paul Dickin

  August 26, 2008 at 6:34 pm

  Hi
  IF you are capturing DV material over FireWire THEN Live Capture Plus handles this situation far better than FCP:
  https://www.squarebox.co.uk/lcplus.html

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