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Capturing / Logging – Time of Day with timecode breaks within clips
Trying to capture to FCP via a Sony HVR-M25E. Have all of the logs imported however we logged in Time of Day and there are breaks in the timecode (camera stopped/started) within our start and finish time logs for each clip.
I understand that FCP’s way of resolving this is to create separate clips between the points where the tape starts and finishes, within each of the timecodes and then apply a suffix (-1, -2 etc) to each clip. Under user preferences we have set to ‘Make New Clip’ under the ‘On timecode break’ option however it’s still not capturing properly – conitinually tries to capture the same 1 second clip.
Any suggestions why or how else we can resolve? Have 22 tapes to get through and not liking the thought of manually logging each one!
Thanks in anticipation….
Colin Miles, Cambridge, UK
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4 Replies
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Are you trying to batch capture from your logs or use the capture now function?
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Trying to batch capture from logs.
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Try doing a capture now (still with a controllable device setting so it reads the TC). Keep your same set-up with the “make new clip on TC break” checked. The problem with batch capturing from your logs, it sounds like, is that when FCP looks for the TC settings of in and out, once the program sees the non-continuous TC it assumes that it has reached the end of what is on that tape. This is because it has no way to locate where, for example, hour 10 starts when hour 9 only gets to minute 58 or something. It can’t bridge the gap between the 58 minute mark and the start of the new hour. Capture now might be a bit messier, but it should allow FCP to plug away at the tapes and push past the first clip capture only problem that you’re seeing. The program will keep the naming convention rolling (…-1, …-2, etc.) if you’ve got it set up properly. Otherwise it’s walk to the deck for each of the logged clips and manually set the TC into that time-frame on the log so that FCP can recognize that the TC actually exists on your tapes.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Thanks Josh, I’ll try it.
Really appreciate your help.
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