• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Final cut pro on the mac book pro

  Posted by Harry Deansway on April 26, 2006 at 12:20 am

  Hello I have just bought my 1st computer with a view to DV editing from my cannon xl1. The computer in question is the mac book pro.

  I’ve just logged my 1st project and I got an error message when trying to capture it saying ” you may have specified a time code with insufficient for a pre/ post roll operation” am i being really stupid and missed something obvious here here? Or is this a bug in the system like what I’ve heard about using old final cut pro on new mac?

  Hope you can help, have rather left this project to the last minute.

  Thanks

  Harry Deansway replied 20 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Matthew Brunn

  April 26, 2006 at 5:41 am

  The XL1 needs to be “pre-rolled” to capture the footage. If my timecode I want to capture is 00:02:30:15 the tape needs to Pre-roll to 00:02:27:15 (minus 3 seconds) to capture the clip. You may have not given FCP the ability to preroll the tape by choosing a timecode to close to the beginning of the tape.

  Hope this helps-
  Matthew
  Quad 2.5 G5
  OSX 10.4.X
  Ram 4GB
  FCP 5.1/AE 6.5/DVDSP4
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  Harry Deansway

  April 26, 2006 at 1:34 pm

  Cheers I didn’t leave enough time at the bgining of the tape. School boy error, how embarassing. Sorted now.

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