• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  basic capture question

  Posted by Sophie Carapet on October 7, 2008 at 11:43 pm

  Evening all cows,

  I dont really work keeping time codes in mind but i think this is a time code issue. :

  I am capturing some footage, with some breaks in between clips.

  when fcp gets to a break in the footage, the large capture window disappears of its own accord, leaving me with no captured footage and a -sign next to the clip name.

  i have been unable to capture any footage at all….

  does anyone have any suggestions,

  thanks Sophie.

  Sophie Carapet replied 17 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jaap Verdenius

  October 8, 2008 at 8:29 am

  Sophie,

  I am not sure if you were capturing logged clips or doing “Capture Now” – capturing without logging.

  If you logged clips and did a batch capture or a clip capture, and there is a timecode break inside that log, then FCP wil indeed halt and capture nothing.
  So never log over timecode breaks.

  If this happened doing Capture Now, perhaps it makes sense to look under User Preferences, General Tab; on the right you find a dropdown menu “On timecode Break”. Is it set to “Make New Clip”?

  By the way, did you check in the Finder if indeed no files were written to the Capture Scratch folder? (If they were, you could simply import them).

  Jaap
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  Sophie Carapet

  October 8, 2008 at 8:08 pm

  HI thanks for your responses. I managed to sort this out last night by clicking on the clapbord symbol ( its final cut express ) not sure what this does but it seemed to work.
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  🙂 Thanks again,
  Sophie.

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