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Archive Date Issue
Hello people –
Need your insight / advice on this issue I have when I use the “Create Archive” function.
I’m creating archives of my Mini DV tapes.
I’ve noticed that some of my tapes that I’ve archived, there are a few clips that have the current days date and time of when I did the archive. But all the other clips seem to have the normal data of the actual date / time of when the footage was actually shot / recorded.
They aren’t redundant or duplicate clips and they look fine otherwise. Just have the wrong date / time.
I thought maybe it was because:
– I recorded the footage with a Canon XL1 and am playing those tapes back in a Sony PC9.
– Using different brand tape stocks.
But there isn’t any consistency to this as some tapes are fine (using the same brand) while others have this issue.
My setup is:
– Camcorder (Sony PC9) connected via Firewire … to a Canopus ADVC110 … to the MBP-RD 15″ via the Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter.
– Open FCP X and click on the icon for “Import media from a connected device”.
– Media Import window opens up, I then select my camera, click the play button icon, view the footage and then press the stop icon.
– Press “Create Archive” and it rewinds the tape in camera and starts the archiving process.
– After it finishes archiving, I either manually stop it (if there is no more footage before the end of the tape) or it stops the process and the camcorder automatically.
– Then I check the archive by selecting it under Camera Archives and look at the clips.
– This is where I view the clips (in List View) and see the date / time data …. and this is where I see this.
Any ideas as to why this would be happening?
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1 Reply
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I’ve never used DV with fcpx, but I’ll offer a few things.
DV has some metadata, one of those is date. It is the date that your camera is set to, which may or may not have been the real date.
You can change creation dates in fcpx.
See if that works for you.
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