• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  data loss during log and capture

  Posted by Amit Ghildiyal on May 6, 2009 at 6:06 pm

  I am capturing HDV footage from a Sony HVRZ1U. I am pretty sure im not doing this right because using the log and capture;

  The captured footage is divided in many clips in sequential order
  EXAMPLE: Tape 1-1.mov, Tape 1-2.mov, Tape1-3.mov,Tape 1-4.mov and so on.

  Also some of the data is cut out at the end of clips and start of others.

  Question 1) What setting should I make to capture the entire footage in one clip (like from a digibeta deck) or avoid loss of footage in the captured group of clips?

  Question 2) Does this happen because of dropped frames?

  Thanks,
  Amit

  Menachem Daum replied 16 years, 11 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  John Fishback

  May 6, 2009 at 9:13 pm

  Capture Now starts a capture and ESC will stop it. I have no idea why your clips are truncated. In the future be sure to give yourself more pre-roll before action and post-roll after.

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  Amit Ghildiyal

  May 6, 2009 at 9:43 pm

  Hi thanks for t your reply. but this is not a pre or post roll issue. I am loosing footage in the middle of the take while capture because multiple clips are being formed.

  (Could it be a camera setting, or am I unable to import HDV 1080i in a single clip becuase of memory issues)
  I work on a
  Powe Mac G5
  2.5 GHz
  2CPUs
  L2 Cache per CPU: 512kb
  Memory 4 GB
  ATI Radeon 9600XT 128MB
  working with 3 external hard drives (One GRAID)

  Kindly help
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  Julio Pijnappel

  May 7, 2009 at 1:48 pm

  I’ve had the same problem very often and what I started doing is capturing HDV directly to ProRes. The files are a lot bigger, but FCP doesn’t bite off chunks of your media. Just change your setup to HDV-Apple Prores, and capturing will be fine. See https://library.creativecow.net/articles/poisson_chris/hdv-prores.php

  Julio Pijnappel
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  Menachem Daum

  June 1, 2009 at 8:00 pm

  Try de-selecting automatic scene detection in the second tab of the log and capture window. Good luck.

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