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When Recapturing All Tapes Drops Out
My friend, who I am helping out, is having a major movie problem. The capture scratches were deleted. So all of the footage is offline, and has to be recaptured and reconnected.
We started doing that, and only three tapes have logged (batch capture) and reconnected successfully.
We have tried two different decks and a camera, three firewires, and two diffent computers (IMacs w/ FCPS2 6.05).
All the tapes begin to play and suddenly stop as if there is a timecode break or a glitch. However, there is no time code break – the tape wasn’t even stopped in the recording process. It’s hard to believe that every single deck has a problem, but it’s even more hard to believe that every single tape but a few have a timecode break. There are approximately 75 tapes…it’s a reality show.
We think this might be the problem – when some of the tapes were originally captured, there was no “pre-roll” before he hit “capture” “now.” So because there is no extra tape on the ends to “grab,” those tapes won’t recapture, thus won’t reconnect. Does this make sense…?
But we really have no idea. Please let me know if there are any solutions. (We’ve also made sure the abort capture check boxes are NOT checked.)
Thanks
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2 Replies
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Check your preferences, see what you have FCP set up to do in case of a timecode break or a dropped frame, you should be able to force it to keep capturing.
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I am having a similar problem where 2 of the 3 tapes for a wedding shoot have drop outs.
I deleted the capture scratch to make room for another project. Now that I am back to working on the wedd edit, i thought it would be easy to batch capture the project clips. Big mistake!I keep getting the error message: batch capture encountered timecode breaks in sequence items. To protect your edits, these clips were left offline and not divided into separate clips.
I tried changing the pre-roll amount to smaller number, no luck.
I tried capturing just the clip length in the sequence timeline, FCP still tries to capture entire master clip.
I tried changing the preferences and unchecked “abort ETT/PTV on dropped frames” as well as “abort capture on dropped frames”
is there anything else i can do to force it to capture through timecode drop outs?I hope there is another option without having to recapture then manually putting clips back into the timeline 🙁
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