• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  LONG clip, capture issues, help!

  Posted by Christopher Glavan on September 27, 2008 at 6:16 pm

  I have a very long clip from a wedding ceremony (35 minutes or so) shot on my GY-HD100U in HDV 720p 24. I’m working on an iMac G5 17″ (1.9gHz PPC, 2.5g RAM) using FCP 6.04. I’m finding that my captures are being capped at 4gb, but FCP won’t start a new clip because there’s no timecode break. The capture continues, but at the end I get a general error and no useable clip. I’ve tried using HDVxDV, as well as AVCVideoCap, with the same result.

  Is there any work-around for this problem? I HAVE to have the ceremony!!! o_0

  Thanks,

  Chris

  Christopher Glavan replied 17 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  William Carr

  September 27, 2008 at 6:45 pm

  Try using Capture Now and manually create 3 or 4 independent shorter clips instead of trying to capture such a large file.

  Your outpoints should overlap the next clip’s inpoint; that way you can, if needed, use whichever moment you choose to start/stop each capture as a smooth edit.
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  Bill Dewald

  September 27, 2008 at 7:31 pm

  If your captures are being capped at 4GB, look under FCP system settings, and be sure that “Limit Capture/Export File Segment Size” is not enabled.

  Also be sure that your scratch disk is formated OSX – Extended.
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  Christopher Glavan

  September 28, 2008 at 11:18 am

  Bill-

  Checked my disk, seems for whatever reason it was formatted FAT32 o_0. Reformatted OSX Extended and it did the trick. Errorless capture of 34 minutes of tape! Thank you a million times!!!

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